Looking rather similar to Ruth Gordon Tsilla Chelton who takes the eponymous role here gives us a Master Class in Mischief if stopping short of downright evil. She is an amalgam of every irascible curmudgeon you've ever met and wished you hadn't and although it's difficult to discern a secondary meaning other than a Case History of the worst aspects of old age this is a film to be enjoyed as one enjoys a pile-up in a motor race safe in the knowledge that we don't indulge in Formula 1 so will never experience those thrills other than vicariously but most of us, on the other hand, will grow old and God forbid we run across a Tatie Danielle of our own. It's also good to see Karin Viard and Isabelle Nanty in early appearances displaying the promise we have now seen fulfilled. One to see again.
Review of Auntie Danielle
