"Will you be my friend Mrs. Palfrey?" Exploring issues of old age and loneliness, Dan Ireland has crafted an exquisitely touching and skillfully underplayed film that shows us that friendships can appear in the unlikeliest of places and can even change our lives. This is gorgeously produced and melancholy movie is not just about the isolation and marginalization of the elderly but signifies everything that is truly great about British cinema. Mrs. Palfrey (Dame Joan Plowright) is an elderly widow who's been more or less emotionally... more info
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