As you get older you start to think more about your life. About what you still might want to accomplish, what is important to you, things you might want to do differently or how to better take care of your finances better so you have less fixed expenses. That usually starts around fourty/fifty as you usually have accomplished a lot of things you set out to do, hopefully are relatively happy and slowly realize that your parents won’t live forever.

That realisation hits everyone differently and your life experience and personality decide how you’ll deal with that. The main character in Mia Madre, the Italian Margherita (Margherita Buy), struggles with these existential questions. Her mother isn’t doing well and as a director she is in the middle of filming her latest movie. Continue reading →