Vivendi Picks Up The Stone Angel

It looks like the Canadian tale The Stone Angel has picked up some sweet backing from Vivendi! We get this saucy scoop from the professionals at Variety:

Vivendi Entertainment has picked up domestic rights to “The Stone Angel,” starring Ellen Burstyn. Helmed, written and produced by Kari Skogland, pic also stars Ellen Page and tyro thesp Christine Horne. Plot hews to Margaret Laurence’s novel, which follows a rebellious woman who’s at odds with her family and friends but trying to reconcile the choices she made as she looks back on her life and faces the prospect of entering a nursing home.

“Stone” opened in Canada in May to an $8,675 per screen average and is set for domestic release on July 11 in select markets including Gotham and Los Angeles; it will expand on July 25.

I like movies where people at the end of the road look back on the path that they have travelled. In a time where aging is seen as an affliction, it’s nice to see films about our most seasoned and experienced. As the character faces the threat of a nursing home, questions of her life’s value and contribution will no doubt come into play; these are themes that we can all relate to regardless of age.

I look forward to getting old, I want to live to 100 and on that birthday sign up to become a cyborg. I enjoy life more every year that I am alive and I don’t expect this trend to change (health permitting). Because I do not fear aging I am very interested in learning from those older than myself (so I may avoid the mistakes that they have made in their life’s journey). As much as we all want to be different; we are very much the same. As we go through different stages in life we end up doing things we thought we would never do, and we adapt to the different life stages like everyone else. To mine parables and proverbs from those that have gone on before you is one of the greatest tricks to a joyous life. Wisdom and joy go hand in hand like rock and roll. Soak up the wisdom of the elders, desire the knowledge of the ancients!

This sombre film of reflection takes place in the rural Canadian gulag, I missed the limited showings in my native land but look forward to catching it when it hits theaters July 11.