Photo: Geoffrey Enthoven's The Only One
The second entry in what seems like an unofficial recent triptych about twilight years, Geoffrey Enthoven's The Only One…as with last year's Venus and Sarah Polley's upcoming Away From Her…concerns itself with the trials and tribulations of growing old. In this tender but occasionally clunky Danish import, the aged person in question is Lucien (Nand Buyl), a widower in his 80s whose independence is threatened by a daughter, Gerda (Misée Wyns), who wants to ship him off to a retirement home, a move that would require him to both sell his house and, consequently, forever relinquish his freedom. After his loving granddaughter relocates to Paris for college, Lucien moves out of Gerda's place (much to her anxious chagrin) and back into his own residence, where he's tended to by jealous girlfriend Mathilde (Viviane de Muynck), the wife of his best friend Felix (Leo Achten), and eventually finds a new, intimate friendship with younger neighbor Sylvia (Marijke Pinoy). Nick Schager
The second entry in what seems like an unofficial recent triptych about twilight years, Geoffrey Enthoven's The Only One…as with last year's Venus and Sarah Polley's upcoming Away From Her…concerns itself with the trials and tribulations of growing old. In this tender but occasionally clunky Danish import, the aged person in question is Lucien (Nand Buyl), a widower in his 80s whose independence is threatened by a daughter, Gerda (Misée Wyns), who wants to ship him off to a retirement home, a move that would require him to both sell his house and, consequently, forever relinquish his freedom. After his loving granddaughter relocates to Paris for college, Lucien moves out of Gerda's place (much to her anxious chagrin) and back into his own residence, where he's tended to by jealous girlfriend Mathilde (Viviane de Muynck), the wife of his best friend Felix (Leo Achten), and eventually finds a new, intimate friendship with younger neighbor Sylvia (Marijke Pinoy). Nick Schager
