My first week in Amsterdam and the very first movie I went to see was "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel".
Cutest comedy-drama about a bunch of retired people who for various reasons decided to travel to India (where life is supposedly much cheaper) and stay in luxurious hotel catering for "elderly and beautiful" . Of course, the moment when they step out of the airport they are knocked-down with reality of life in India: extremely crowded, hot, humid, mostly dirty and not at all what they were expecting. Not to mention that hotel turns out to be completely ruined building owned by young dreamer who like his father before him, builds castles in the air and basically avoids any plain answers to their questions. "Let's not get preoccupied with small details" says he when somebody asks him where the hell are doors for the room. I mean, rooms have no doors, pigeons are flying around and it's almost total disaster but this people are now stuck here and have to manage the best they could. And trough the movie they actually manage quite fine and it even changes their lives drastically.
The cast is excellent as usual for british movies (Judi Dench is particularly sweet as a good natured widow who finds herself a job for the first time in her life) but I have to point at excellent Maggie Smith who is brilliant as wheel-chaired invalid who despises all the "natives" around her (and she "will not eat the food she can't pronounce") but slowly warms up to their kindness and eventually at the end of the movie miraculously saves the day and becomes a real hero.
Wonderful, feel-good movie!
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