The film was a bit slow to start and get into, but wow, was it ever moving! One of those types of movies that stays with you. I could really empathize with Angelique's situation, and felt her sense of void.
Overall very well done and well worth a watch!
Plot summary
Angélique is sixty. But she is not old. The best proof is that she is still working as a taxi girl in a cabaret by the French-German border. And that her love for men is intact. And that she keeps loving partying. And that there is nothing for her like night life... Of course clients are becoming rarer and rarer. Sure a few of them are offensive to her and treat her like meat... But what a surprise when Michel, a friendly retired miner, asks her to marry him! Will she be able to become a respected married lady? Will she manage to make it up with her family? Can she really say farewell to her present lifestyle?
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Simple, intense, meaningful, and beautiful...
Fiction loosely inspired by the story of director Samuel Theis' mother, "Sexygenarian" Angélique Litzenburger, a 60-year-old hostess who likes partying, men and alcohol, a former real-life cabaret owner, and her children playing herself themselves, that's the difference, acting as themselves, simple, intense, meaningful, and the drama is tangled up in the matriarch's doubt, between marrying and settling down, or living in the inspiring world of gangland, and union with the children, and adopted daughter, beautiful...