My Old Lady

Sep 9, 2014

1h 47m

★ 6.2

He's in the will. She's in the way.

Overview

Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he's shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge. His apartment is a viager—an ancient French real estate system with complex rules pertaining to its resale—and the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde Girard, who has lived in the apartment with her daughter Chloé for many years, can by contract collect monthly payments from Mathias until her death.

Genres

Romance

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Deux Chevaux Films

Cohen Media Group

BBC Film

Krasnoff / Foster Entertainment

Protagonist Pictures

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Cast

Mathilde Girard

Maggie Smith

Mathias Gold

Kevin Kline

Chloé Girard

Kristin Scott Thomas

Monsieur Lefebvre

Dominique Pinon

Rabbi on Bicycle

Michael Burstin

Man at Gate

Elie Wajeman

Dr. Florence Horowitz

Noémie Lvovsky

Phillippe

Stéphane De Groodt

François Roy

Stéphane Freiss

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