Reviews
HAAG’s Older Tenants Voice Newsletter reviews books movies about older people, housing and homelessness, and we love to see when these issues are brought into the spotlight.
Love is strange
Love Is Strange is about an elderly couple who, after 40 years together, are forced to live separately – couch-surfing with family and friends – when a combination of life events suddenly leaves them homeless. We watch the protagonists navigate broken real estate and social housing systems (told they may be able to get help… …
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Umberto D
With its elderly protagonist facing homeless, Umberto D (Italy 1952) might be the HAAG-iest movie imaginable. We meet the title character at a protest in favour of raising the aged pension, and when the police break up the rally we see that this barely registers as a disappointment because life has already sucked so much… …
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Beautiful Melbourne (1946)
Diving into the archive of HAAG’s website on The Wayback Machine we discovered that HAAG’s movie column itself has a long history, this article from Elisabeth Coldicutt with this curious article from back in 2004. It is a privilege to be asked by HAAG to introduce this little fragment of social history – not just… …
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