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SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL 6 Obstacles to Love

THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL
6 Obstacles To Love

March 12, 2015 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

We all need love. Age doesn’t lessen that. Yet, sometimes it’s hard to trust love, for complicated reasons, even though you want it. John Madden’s The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel gives us a bird’s eye view into 6 serious obstacles to love. The reasons for putting love off are often not conscious, in my …

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THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL 5 Ways To Change at Any Age

THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL
6 Ways To Change At Any Age

March 5, 2015 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

With The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel opening on Friday, March 6th, I thought I’d review what the first heartfelt and hopeful film tells us about change at any age. Change is hard. Especially if you’re discouraged by losses, disappointments, stale marriages, difficult parents, and unresolved fears. Yet, this film gives us some important pointers …

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PHILOMENA Triumph over Shame

PHILOMENA
Triumph Over Shame

August 1, 2014 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness … (T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets) Shame ravages. It eats away at you. It makes you collapse into yourself and live with secrets – seemingly too shameful to tell. Philomena Lee’s (Judi Dench) story is the story of …

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Inspiration

“We come to Film and TV to find our hidden stories. If we look deeply into a character’s psyche, there is much to see about ourselves.”

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