I couldn't really make my 78 year-old mother sit through Upgrade which the man on the counter described as featuring "high-octane violence" so I requested two tickets to "the one with the old ladies having tea," and then again upstairs, even though I knew the title very well, rolled my eyes and told the person checking tickets we were seeing "the four old ladies sitting around chatting," and then, in a theatre full of white fluffy clouds of hair and walking frame-littered aisles had a wonderful time with my mum laughing and marvelling at how easy it can be for movie-makers to entertain for a feature-length runtime without high-octane violence or special effects or decapitations (I've just watched Hereditary) and even without a sustained topic of conversation - some guy behind the camera makes up a lazy question whenever the conversation between the women dries up and with just their four bright personalities, a pot of tea and their ability to articulate their wealth of interesting experiences from their work in the theatre or movies, the Dames make Tea With The Dames wonderfully, effortlessly entertaining, abit like the The Trip To series.
★★★★☆
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