Synopsis
Elsa & Fred (Elsa y Fred, 2005) is a Spanish-Argentine romantic dramedy by Marcos Carnevale, a warm pick to watch online on iFILM. Alfredo — a tidy, pill-counting widower pushing eighty — moves into a new Madrid flat and lands in the orbit of his neighbour Elsa, a loud Argentinean who lies freely and lives as if she has all the time in the world.
She drags Fred out of his routines and prescriptions; he puts up with her stunts and her tall tales; and between them grows something most people their age never risk. Elsa has carried one dream for decades — to recreate the Trevi fountain scene from Fellini's La Dolce Vita — and Fred sets out to make it happen. Watching China Zorrilla and Manuel Alexandre play these two is a pleasure in itself.
It's a quiet film about starting over near the end of the road. A good choice if you're tired of rom-coms about twenty-somethings. Stream Elsa & Fred (2005) online on iFILM.
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