A busload of women become stranded in an isolated part of the Canadian countryside. As they await rescue, they reflect on their lives through a mostly ad-libbed script.
Company of Strangers, Le fabuleux gang des sept, Strangers in Good Company, Na Companhia de Estranhos, 陌生人为伴, I främlingars sällskap
Germany
Germany
I need not harp on the prevailing depictions of the elderly in modern media. Suffice it to say that this film defies them with every fiber of its celluloid being. Eight beautiful and charming and most importantly very real women (one of whom is younger) find themselves stranded, and while the narrative considers their age and mortality, it also celebrates their lives--not merely their pasts and the wisdom born of experience you might find in most narratives on the elderly, but also their presents. They talk about love not just in an emotional sense, but a physical sense. They talk about how things used to be and how things are. They talk about what they love to do now. This…
i wish every movie was about old ladies!!! i could watch 100 hours of them catching frogs and talking about their lives.. i love them!! this is my new favorite movie
I cannot emphasize how beautiful and compassionate this movie is. And it gives this overly anxious & depressed person a useful kind of hope.
"I'm not going to die. I'm going fishing"
Want to be on the edge of tears every ten minutes?
I can't think of any other film that exudes such pure humanity.
Constructed out of small, sparkling moments and populated by a group of aging women (and a 27-year-old who settles among them with remarkable ease), The Company of Strangers is a breathtaking achievement that is at once monumental and modest. It's a simple story about stranded travelers, but it's also a joyous celebration of women we don't see on movie screens, except as supporting characters or objects of pity.
The characters in The Company of Strangers were 'created' by the women who play them, all of whom share names with their characters, and whose own stories are the stories being told on screen. It's the kind of intimate that makes you hold your breath out of fear you'll miss something; the…
whem mary tells cissy that she’s a lesbian and cissy says “oh that’s good!” and then immediately after spots a bird through her binoculars…one of the sweetest moments ever honestly! this movie is pretty much full of moments like that, and knowing that this is ad-libbed is even better as everything just feels so genuine. this is one gem of a film that i’ll be thinking about a lot.
a beautiful film that’s essentially an act of love towards its participants. i can't quite believe it and i'm very thankful that it was made.
cinematic equivalent of drinking a pot of lavender-chamomile tea and falling asleep under a heavy quilt. a lovely and basically perfect film
the years of existence accumulate like foliage during autumn. each year moves with the collective air driven into and out of the lungs until it falls from fingertips, and it noiselessly kisses the ground of memory, settling there. meanwhile, bodies are like barks peeling off, the insides slowly deteriorating, its branches withering, withering some more until it can't anymore. wrinkles crawl out from the corners of the eyes, the base of the neck, the back of the hand while the hair thins and pales into threads of silver. the heart softly weakens; youth has come and gone. ageing is hard and unavoidable. but the pupils still gleam at the small deeds, glimpses, and recollections of beauty.
Strangers in Good Company…
Beautiful, enlightening and profoundly impactful, ‘The Company of Strangers,’ takes an ordinary premise and turns it into an emotional story about life, love, death and everything in between. It radiates an authentic purity rarely seen in film, so much so that I couldn’t help but fall in love with it.
