- “Late Bloomers,” a film about daring to live out personal passions in the autumn of life, focuses on women resisting the role of subservience thrust upon them in Swiss society. The film has foreshadowed this European country’s political turn-around in a charming social comedy. The term “late bloomers” has become a popular catch-phrase in Switzerland, referring to women in their later years who have the courage to follow their dreams, even where those dreams conflict with traditional societal constraints. With a well-cast and gorgeous setting in the the idyllic world famous Emmental, the Swiss entry for the Academy Awards Foreign Film consideration is a crowd pleaser with a winning formula à la Chocolat or television's The Golden Girls. Late Bloomers is about a widowed woman who fulfills her lifelong dream of opening a Lingerie shop in her conservative village where her son is the priest and everybody knows each other.
- 1/14/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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