Wednesday December 9th 2015
USA  2013, 107 minutes 
Director: Israel Horovitz 
Starring: Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas, Kevin Kline 
 
Impecunious author Mathias Gold has inherited a large Paris apartment from his late father. He arrives in France from New York to take possession and sell the property. He is startled to discover a retired 90-year old Englishwoman, Mathilde Girard, in residence, along with her daughter Chloe. He is even more startled to discover that she has life-time tenancy guaranteed by the old French law of ‘viage’, and, incidentally, the right to charge him rent if he stays in the apartment. The subsequent manoeuvres of this unlikely trio to resolve the situation to their own advantage make an intriguing, amusing and thoroughly enjoyable story.