Friday, June 28, 2024, 1:00 PM, Roxie Theater • World premiere
not available in the Digital Screening Room streaming encore
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| Si je meurs, ce sera de joie If I Die, It’ll be of Joy |
Filmmaker Alexis Taillant interviewed several LGBTQ+ elders, all of them over 65, about their invisibility in society, and their commodification as part of the for-profit nursing home industry, medicalizing the care of older people, simply for lack of better options. The nursing homes are chronically understaffed, and most people are put in semi-private rooms, sharing with someone, usually not a relative or close friend. Our culture tends to put old people in a box with little room for sexuality, personality, or creativity. That raises some questions that most people don’t think about and certainly don’t talk about, like Where do you go when you want to masturbate?
I grew up seeing very little representation of sexual desire by women or by older people, other than the caricatures of “bimbos” and “dirty old men” played for ridicule on TV, so seeing lesbians in their 70s and 80s talking about their undiminished sex drive is a refreshing shift of context. Some older people have begun organizing under the banner of Grey Pride to advocate for themselves, for others no longer able to speak out, and for those to come who may never give a thought to their own old age. It’s a beautiful exploration of a neglected topic, definitely a MUST SEE for anyone who is old and for anyone who hopes someday to reach old age.
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