daily stream: badass old ladies FTW
2018’s *Edie* is streaming on iPlayer in the UK, Prime in the US
I hope someday to be as absolutely fucking cool as 85-year-old Sheila Hancock in 2018’s Edie and be all, I am done with the bullshit that the world expects of women, I’m doing my own thing now, finally. Quoting my review from a few years ago:
Her Edie is much more bitter and much more profoundly full of regret than pop culture is typically comfortable with: “I wasted so much time doing nothing,” she practically howls… and by “nothing,” she is referring to marriage and motherhood. That’s as extreme as her plan to climb [a] mountain, her acknowledgement of how freeing it is for her to finally be free of the social traps women are presumed to be fulfilled by, which were even tighter for her generation.
Yeah, so she’s gonna climb a mountain in Scotland, as she had dreamed of doing decades earlier, and is finally free to do now that her nasty husband has died. Edie is endlessly satisfying in its determined protagonist, with her tangy triumph of risk-taking over regret, resolution over resignation.
US: stream on Prime; rent/buy on Prime and Apple TV
UK: stream on BBC iPlayer through March 23; rent/buy on Prime and Apple TV; rent on BFI Player
See Edie at Letterboxd for more viewing options.
When you rent or purchase a film through my Prime and Apple links, I get a small affiliate fee that helps support my work. Please use them if you can! (Affiliate fees do not increase your cost.)
Like this? Want me to keep it up? Show your support by becoming a paid subscriber (if you aren’t already):
Please feel free to share this with anyone you think might enjoy it. Thank you!
find lots more movies to stream at Flick Filosopher
You control which emails from me you receive in your Substack account settings. Go to My Subscriptions > Flick Filosopher > Edit > Email notifications, then uncheck whichever bits you don’t want to receive by email. (No matter what email settings you choose, you can always read stuff at the Flick Filosopher Substack site or in the Substack app.)
follow me…
Twitter | Letterboxd | Rotten Tomatoes | Pinterest | Mastodon | Post | Facebook