My Old Lady (2014)

Directors

Israel Horovitz

Cast

Kevin Kline, Elie Wajeman, Maggie Smith, Dominique Pinon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christian Rauth, Noémie Lvovsky, Stéphane De Groodt, Stéphane Freiss

The story

Mathias Gold, a down-and-out New Yorker, inherits a large, valuable apartment in Paris from his estranged father. He spends all the money he has on an airplane ticket to Paris, planning to sell the apartment. Once there, however, he discovers that an elderly woman, Mathilde Girard, lives in the apartment and that his father purchased it from her 43 years ago under a contract known in French property law as a "viager": the buyer pays a reduced price for the apartment, but the seller may continue living in it for the remainder of their life, during which time the buyer must pay the seller a fixed monthly amount.

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