2017 PS Film Festival
film synopsis
Fiona receives a letter from her dotty aunt Martha: "Dear Fiona, help! After 48 years living in Paris they want me to move to an old people's home. Ridiculous! I'm only 88." Escaping frozen Canada for the city of romance, gawky, gangling Fiona arrives too late: Martha's apartment is empty. Worse, she loses her passport and her money, and takes an unintended dip in the Seine. Only a local tramp, Dom, takes a shine to her...
As in their previous features The Fairy and Rumba, Brussels-based husband-and-wife duo Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel take inspiration from Jacques Tati, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy in this whimsical slapstick comedy. Innocents abroad, the skinny, hapless clowns concoct a perilous but ultimately benign world where a mischievous fate mostly seems to want to have fun at their expense (and to our great joy) in one perfectly executed pratfall after another. French screen legend Emmanuelle Riva (Amour) is a special treat as the errant aunt.
Winner: Audience Award, Mill Valley