Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Elaine Madsen teams up with her Oscar-nominated actress daughter Virginia Madsen for this pleasant celebration of 16 women who remain active, healthy, and vibrant in their senior years. Rather than grow old in inert retirement, the women featured here continue to pursue their careers and creative passions with a vibrancy and spirit that makes the younger generation seem downright enervated in comparison. Not surprisingly, the most animated interview subjects are those who have lived most of their lives in the public eye: feminist icon Gloria Steinem, writer Maxine Hong Kingston, and performers Rita Moreno, Lauren Hutton, and Eartha Kitt (in one of her final interviews) are all sparkling in their observations on the challenges of growing old (without feeling old). Equally entertaining are visits with lesser-known subjects including yoga expert Tao Porchon-Lynch, artist Marg Starbuck, and Mexican-American civil rights activist Lupe Anguiano. I Know a Woman Like That rarely plumbs the significant concerns that would impact the majority of older American women today—most notably financial issues and healthcare—but it nonetheless offers a positive reminder that age is a number, not a defining boundary. Recommended. (P. Hall)
I Know a Woman Like That
Virgil, 88 min., not rated, DVD: $19.99 Volume 31, Issue 4
I Know a Woman Like That
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