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My Old Lady Stories of the Past Self-Hate or Liberating Truth?

MY OLD LADY
Stories of a Past
Self-Hate or Liberating Truth?

January 5, 2015 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

The way any one of us lives with the past is a complicated thing. My Old Lady, a deeply psychological and sometimes shockingly honest film written and directed by Israel Horovitz, takes us layer upon layer into the kinds of deeply wrought emotional problems living with a difficult past can bring. Matthias Gold (Kevin Kline) lives …

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Stories of a Past
Self-Hate or Liberating Truth?

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“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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