Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
SOME KIND OF HEAVEN
Synopsis
America’s seniors have discovered the fountain of youth. It’s in The Villages, FL. Some Kind of Heaven cracks the facade of America’s largest retirement community, following the desires of a group of Villages residents who are unable to find happiness within the community’s pre-packaged paradise.
Synopsis
America’s seniors have discovered the fountain of youth. It’s in The Villages, FL. Some Kind of Heaven cracks the facade of America’s largest retirement community, following the desires of a group of Villages residents who are unable to find happiness within the community’s pre-packaged paradise.
Our take
In the sunset years of their lives, tens of thousands of baby boomers are enjoying one long last hurrah. Capturing the strangeness of a kind of Disneyworld for retirees, this sharp, peculiar documentary puts America’s hyperreal idiosyncrasies on full and fascinating display.