For her documentary Gabi Schweiger has interviewed five sexually active women beyond the menopause. Without mincing words, you tell of love and lust in old age. This film deals with ways of viewing one’s own aging body, the difficulties involved with various couplings, differences relating to culture or age, impotence and how to work around it creatively. Of particular significance is the aspect of overcoming barriers thrown up by society and crass moral concepts, which all the protagonists are forced to struggle with, whether neighbors’ eyes popping out or their own children turning away in disgust. In conclusion the film has something to say about courageous self-actualization and self-determination with regard to one’s own aging body, a theme we will all be confronted with some day. Produced by acclaimed Austrian documentary producer-director Nikolaus Geyrhalter.
For her documentary Gabi Schweiger has interviewed five sexually active women beyond the menopause. Without mincing words, you tell of love and lust in old age.
This film deals with ways of viewing one’s own aging body, the difficulties involved with various couplings, differences relating to culture or age, impotence and how to work around it creatively. Of particular significance is the aspect of overcoming barriers thrown up by society and crass moral concepts, which all the protagonists are forced to struggle with, whether neighbors’ eyes popping out or their own children turning away in disgust. In conclusion the film has something to say about courageous self-actualization and self-determination with regard to one’s own aging body, a theme we will all be confronted with some day. Produced by acclaimed Austrian documentary producer-director Nikolaus Geyrhalter.