Kings Point (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Kings Point |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 40 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sari Gilman |
| production | Sari Gilman Jedd Wider Todd Wider |
| music | Miriam Cutler |
| camera |
Daniel B. Gold Gabriel Miller Toby Oppenheimer |
| cut | Jeffrey Friedman |
Kings Point is an American documentary - short film from the year 2013. Directed by Sari Gilman . The film about five American pensioners was nominated for an Academy Award for " Best Documentary Short " at the 2013 Academy Awards.
background
Kings Point is a location in Palm Beach County , Florida . There is a retirement home there , to which the filmmaker's grandparents moved in 1978. Gilman visited his grandparents regularly in Florida and as a child gained the impression of a "summer camp for the elderly". Over the years, Gilman noticed a change in the relationships among friends and neighbors, saw a change in the topics of conversation, and saw the group of seniors slowly shrink. After Gilman visited Kings Point for 20 years, Gilman delved deeper into the seniors of American society and their lifestyle. The filmmaker dealt with the aging process and its consequences in a society that extols the high value of independence.
The film took two years to shoot and another three years passed in post-production . In total, Gilman worked on the documentary for ten years.
action
Sari Gilman accompanies Jane, Mollie, Gert, Bea and Frank, who live in Kings Point, Florida in a retirement home, a “retirement home”. Frank spends a lot of time with Bea, but actually he wants a younger woman by his side. Gert doesn’t want to move in with her children, while Mollie, after her husband’s death, wishes she had never left New York. The five seniors talk to Gilman about the changing friendships, about how difficult it is to maintain deep friendships in old age. They talk about love in old age and tell why people keep their illness stories to themselves at Kings Point.
In her film, Gilman also goes into the darker side of aging and tells of illness, loneliness and death.
reception
Michael Winerip saw the film for the New York Times and rated Kings Point as "moving". He recommends the film even if it is not always easy to watch ("I recommend it, though the film is not always easy to watch.").
Web links
- Kings Point in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- kingspointmovie.com , website of the film
- Rosie Mestel: Retirement resorts don't look so rosy in documentary film , article in the Los Angeles Times on August 13, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Interview with Sari Gilman on documentary.org, August 2012, accessed January 5, 2014.
- ↑ Michael Winerip, Kings Point, a Magic Kingdom for the Retirement Set , New York Times article, March 9, 2013, accessed January 5, 2014.