Just Retired
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Marilou and Philippe prepare for their future retirement in Portugal. But their daughter separates and a whole procession of solicitations falls on them.
Our read · Just Retired (2019) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Just Retired
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a breezy French comedy about retirement dreams upended by family.”
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The reading.
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