Synopsis
All Together (Et si on vivait tous ensemble?, 2012) is a French-German tragicomedy you can watch online for a warm, clear-eyed look at growing old. Five lifelong friends, all in their seventies, decide to move under one roof rather than be packed off to a retirement home.
The plan is simple: share a house, split the chores, eat together, and age on their own terms. A young German ethnology student named Dirk moves in too — officially he's writing a thesis on the elderly, but he soon becomes their driver, confidant, and witness. What follows is squabbles, buried secrets, fading memory, an unexpected romance, and plenty of everyday absurdity. Jane Fonda, Pierre Richard, Geraldine Chaplin, and Guy Bedos play these friendships as if they'd lived them for decades, while Daniel Brühl brings the outsider's fresh eye.
Director Stéphane Robelin is honest about failing bodies and the fear of the end, yet he never tips into sentimentality. It's for anyone after a smart film about friendship that doesn't quit with age. Stream All Together (2012) online on iFILM.
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