Independent Cinema for Everyone

Mirren and Sutherland play Ella and John Spencer, a long-married couple who defy their adult children by absconding in August 2016, during the early days of the presidential campaign, for one last journey in their decrepit RV. Destination: Key West, Florida, where John, a retired English professor whose failing mind clings hard to beloved literary quotations, can visit the home of Ernest Hemingway.

This is a road-trip movie, but it’s also something more. So many films are about love, but they’re about the beginning of love or sometimes about the middle of love. This is about the end of a love story – the trials and challenges of the happily-ever-after bit.

Dir. Paolo Virzi, US/Italy, 2017, 112 mins.
Cast. Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland.