Film review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The director of Shakespeare in Love makes a film that David Larsen would happily tell his mother to see.

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24th March, 2012

Film review

When your next significant birthday is 80, you are apt to be suspicious of whimsical, warm-hearted comedies about old folk. So I am reliably informed. But there is much to like, and not the least whiff of condescension, about The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and after much deliberation I have decided to give it the highest possible praise: this is a film about people my mother’s age I would actually tell my mother to watch. And immediately, I imagine the phone call after my mother fails to enjoy it. Okay, self-protective hedging: I have to concede the film is a very light confection ...

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