Elsa & Fred comes just a few months after Rob Reiner’s And So It Goes, in which Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton engaged in some of the most witless banter this side of Gigli; it’s been a ...

Christopher Plummer, 84, and as suave as ever, is Fred, a new widower about to be enchanted by Elsa, against his will. Fred is being downsized, also against his will, by daughter Lydia, played ...

Here's the thing with movies that hinge on terminal illness: You spend most of the runtime waiting for someone to die. That's the payoff. Death. This is no way to spend 108 minutes in the dark ...

Movie review: "Elsa & Fred," Argentine writer-director Marcos Carnevale's sentimental salute to Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita," stars China Zorrilla as an 82-year-old woman who's obsessed with ...

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That film and that fantasy will drive “Elsa & Fred.” The 1960 classic stars Marcello Mastroianni, 36 at the time, and Anita Ekberg, then 29.

The only diversion in Elsa and Fred worth remembering is the dynamic MacLaine-Plummer charisma. Rarely have I seen two old-timers work so hard to bring so much life to a movie that is dead on arrival.

Movies in Brief: ‘Elsa & Fred’ This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to ...

Movie Review: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (+trailer) 10 Dec 04:00 PM After discovering a confronting truth about Elsa, Fred decides to help her fulfil her dream and ...

Shirley MacLaine, 80, who is romanced by Christopher Plummer, 84, in ‘Elsa and Fred,’ wants to make even more movies for the senior set ...