Finding Your Feet has Imelda Staunton reluctantly doing the hokey cokey – what extra might you presumably need from a movie?
“It’s one thing being scared of dying…it’s a whole different matter being scared of living”
Despite the horrors of Joanna Lumley’s mugging on the poster, Finding Your Feet is kinda tailored for this return to the golden-years style that I do love a lot. Just a look on the solid – Imelda Staunton, Timothy Spall, Celia Imrie, David Hayman – provides you a sign that it’s going to be well-acted on the very least, plus the trailer provides you hints of the music and dance routines inside.
The movie kicks off with Staunton’s Sandra celebrating the retirement of her husband of 35 years however all of the plans she has in retailer exit the window when she finds him snogging her finest pal (that dastardly Josie Lawrence). Utterly distraught, she flings herself on the mercies of her estranged older sister Bif (Imrie) and thru the magic of neighborhood ballroom dancing, open air swimming and desires of barge dwelling, she begins to heal.
As befits the style, Richard Loncraine’s movie could be very mild of step, comedian reasonably than difficult at many factors and charming with it. And as additionally befits a Britflick, writers Meg Leonard and Nick Moorcroft introduce a sure word of grit as infidelity, dying and dementia circle across the lives of all concerned right here. There are not any nice surprises (aside from the brilliance of the hokey cokey bit) however there’s an class to the storytelling that resonates appropriately.
Staunton and Imrie are nice enjoyable collectively, as the previous struggles within the transition from a Surrey mansion to a North London council property and the latter delights in introducing her youthful sibling to a lifetime of spliffs, the women pond and the dancing at which Sandra used to excel. Spall as predictably great as a slapdash rom-com lead and although she solely pops up a few occasions, it’s all the time nice to see Phoebe Nicholls. Not precisely ground-breaking however come now, that’s not why we’re right here.