THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL
6 Obstacles To Love

By Dr. Sandra E. Cohen | March 12, 2015

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
6 Ways To Change At Any Age

By Dr. Sandra E. Cohen | March 5, 2015

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

By Dr. Sandra E. Cohen | January 5, 2015

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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