THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL

   For me, any film that reminds you of something that has happened in other places, where you have never been and you don´t know if you will be, is a good movie, in general. In the case of The best exotic Marigold Hote”, I was totally transported to India, where the story takes place.   The film tells the story of a group of English retired people, which decide to travel to India to find something that is missing in their lives.  Each one with his own problems, Evelyn (Dench), Graham (Wilkinson), Douglas (Nighy)  and Jean Ainslie (Penelope Wilton), Muriel (Smith), Norman (Ronald Pickup)  and Madge (Celia Imrie), embark on a trip which finally wasn´t what they  had expected. They thought they would be in a luxury hotel, living the best of India. The Marigold Hotel they discover is only the remainder of what it was one day. The group is received effusively by Sonny Kapoor (Dev Patel), a young and inexperienced entrepreneur, who isn´t able to keep his hotel. At first, everyone is deceived and complained about the hotel. But with the time, they discovered a new way to see the world, and they all fell in love with a country full of contrasts and gentle people that offers everything they have.    I could almost smell Indian´s odors and I could feel the chaos of the city of Jaipur.  Directed by the English director John Madden, and adapted from Deborah Moggach´s novel These Foolish Things, “The best exotic Marigold Hotel”, has a wonderful cast, which helps the audience to submerge into the film.   I think that one of the most awesome things of India is its contrasts, so maybe, I´d like to see in the film more about the other face of India, not just the poverty.
   I recommend this film because of many reasons. But the most important thing in my opinion, is that “The best exotic Marigold Hotel” made woke up my interest about India and about its culture, and showed me that if we look around us, we can find a lot of interesting things that we didn´t even know.

"At the end, everything will be ok. If it´s not OK, it is not the end"

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