![]() When they step out, hand-in hand, into the daylight, they look just as beautiful as they ever did. Overnight, in the dark, Louis and Addie murmur their secrets and tend their wounds. But it also provides them with fresh challenges allows them ample room to stretch and breathe and find their range. NATIONAL BESTSELLER A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future. There’s something moving about the sight of these two 60s poster-children grown old and careworn, and Batra’s film no doubt is trading on that. Assim comea OUR SOULS AT NIGHT (no Brasil, NOSSAS NOITES, lanado pela Cia das Letras, com traduo de Sonia Moreira), romance postumamente publicado que Kent Haruf escreveu pouco antes de morrer, aos 71 anos, em 2014, por isso no de se duvidar que as ansiedades e aflies de seus personagens so as mesmas que ele enfrentava com a. They keep the film honest when it turns more conventional and pitches towards soap opera. Both give performances of such quiet conviction that it scarcely looks like acting at all. It is a graceful, easygoing September song of a film, complete with slide guitar and autumn leaves the perfect late showcase for Redford and Fonda, more than 50 years after they appeared together in The Chase. ![]() And then all of a sudden they’re not news anymore, just another elderly couple pottering down Main Street.īatra made his reputation with The Lunchbox, a charming Mumbai-set romance, and Our Souls at Night shares the same connective tissue. It’s a slim novel of short chapters, and it would seem to bring the cycle of books about small-town Holt, Colorado, to a close. If Haruf (who died in November at age 71) hadn’t titled his previous book Benediction (2013), that might have been perfect for this one. His film is at its most affecting during these hushed exchanges, in the weeks before Louis and Addie take the relationship out of doors, thrilling the curtain-twitchers and rubberneckers and the gossipy old crocks down at Frederick’s cafe. A sweet love story about the twilight years. Batra cleverly frames these encounters as an intimate dialogue, like My Night With Maude or a co-counselling session in which the participants are candid and direct in a way they could never otherwise be. He tells her of his extramarital affair and of his failed ambition to become a painter and she in turn tells him about her infant daughter, who was killed on the road. Our Souls at Night: A novel - hardcover, 9781101875896, Kent Haruf, new Quantity. ![]() ![]() “Talk to me,” she says, once they are sitting in bed, and this is just what Louis does. ![]()
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