Elsa y Fred

Name: Elsa y Fred
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: June 27, 2008
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 52

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DistriMax | Release Date: June 27, 2008 | PG

Summary: When elderly Fred loses his wife, he quietly moves into a smaller apartment to live out the rest of his life, which he hopes will be quick. But when he meets his neighbor, vivacious Elsa, he soon discovers how much life he has to live.

Director: Marcos Carnevale

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Rating: PG

Runtime: 108 min

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Bill White

And who would have guessed that, in this age of excess and one-upmanship, when bigger is always better, the year's most romantic screen kiss would last a mere two seconds. Read full review

Ruthe Stein

Worth seeing just to admire how Argentine writer-director Marcos Carnevale avoids so much as a whiff of condescension. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

Sentimental, formulaic, predictable and shamelessly manipulative, Marcos Carnevale’s tale of late-life love is also genuinely heartbreaking and heartening. Read full review

Ty Burr

Elsa & Fred does graze against an interesting idea: that the vitality of our youths lives on in the prison of aging bodies. Read full review

J.R. Jones

This begins to get interesting in the home stretch, as the woman's chronic deception begins to catch up with her, but for the most part it's an extended Geritol commercial. Read full review

Jean Oppenheimer

The problem isn't the acting; both actors are superb. It's Elsa's character that is so difficult to take. Only the hopelessly romantic will be able to tolerate her. Read full review

Steve Davis

Will likely warm the cockles of your heart, even though it's hardly the stuff of great romance. Read full review

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