my old lady

Director: israel horovitz

Actor: kevin kline,kristin scott thomas,maggie smith,michel burstin

Data Published: Fri Oct 10 2014

Genres: Comedy,Drama,Romance

Key Words: apartment,dysfunctional family,cheating husband,cheating wife,selling an apartment

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2908856/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Old_Lady_(film)

Description: My Old Lady is a movie starring Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Maggie Smith. An American inherits an apartment in Paris that comes with an unexpected resident.

Plot: Mathias, a down-and-out New Yorker, travels to Paris to sell a large, valuable apartment he has inherited from his estranged father. Once there, however, he discovers an old woman, Mathilde, living in the apartment with her daughter Chloé. Mathias quickly learns that the apartment is a "viager" — an ancient French system for buying and selling apartments — and that he will not actually be in possession of the apartment until Mathilde dies, and that until then he owes her a life annuity of €2,400 a month. All this is a surprise to him, since his father never told him and Mathias had language problems with the French lawyer. Mathias has no money and no place to live, but Mathilde allows him to stay in the apartment with her if he pays rent. However, to pay for the next life annuity payment, he steals and sells furniture from the apartment and also asks a prospective buyer of his contract for advance payments. Mathias discovers that Mathilde and his father had a long-lasting affair while both were married. Mathias and Chloé fall in love with each other after emotionally bonding over their childhoods. Since Chloé wants to stay in the apartment, Mathias decides at the last minute to decline a multi-million Euro offer for the apartment/contract. Mathilde points out that Mathias does not have to worry about money: he can sell en viager, allowing him to live in the apartment while also providing him a life annuity, albeit a modest one because of his relatively young age of 57.