Old 2021

Old 2021 Plot

Guy (Gael García Bernal) and Prisca Cappa (Vicky Krieps) are getting a divorce. The couple decides to take their children on their last family vacation. They choose a tropical resort, hoping to create happy memories for their children.

During their vacation, the family members begin to age rapidly, with every 30 minutes spent equating to a year of aging. He discovers that the beach is the cause of rapid aging. They also find that they are unable to leave the beach. Every time they try, they lose consciousness and wake up a little later where they had started.

Each family member has an underlying medical condition.

As the day progresses, the health issues of the family members become worse, ending up threatening their very life.

What will become of them on the beach of death?

Old 2021 Review and Impressions

M. Night Shyamalan’s Old (2021) is based on the graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters. As usual in his works, M. Night Shyamalan has taken on both directing and writing, and the result is excellent!

The original and brilliant central idea of the aging beach is developed into a thriller that will fill you with thoughts as well as suspense. We may not be on such a beach, but we all age and death is our common fate. So we should cherish every moment in life.

To return to Old, it must be said that Michael Gioulakis ( It Follows (2014), Us (2019) ) work in Photography is amazing, as well as everyone’s work in Production Design, Art Direction, Makeup and Visual Effects. Trevor Gureckis unique musical compositions for the film tie in terrifically with the story.

M. Night Shyamalan grabs the viewer’s attention from the first scene of the film and keeps the viewer’s attention. The isolated beach with no way out creates a claustrophobic feeling and a fear that is initially underlying, only to reach the point of panic. The twist in the finale, not an inexpensive social critique, is the icing on the cake. It’s a climax worthy of the climax, and of the play as a whole.

The script and the actors performances have what it takes to keep you on the edge of your seat! They convince you that they are living it and give you feelings of emotion. And if we’ve come to expect it from actors like Rufus Sewell, Gael García Bernal and Prisca Cappa, it was a pleasant surprise to see the actors playing the children and teenagers.

We also have to point out that Old has well-written, deep characters, who are tested, mature and evolve as time… passes.

Old 2021 Trailer (engish subs)

Old – Official Trailer [HD]

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