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Some Kind of Heaven review - a Florida retirement community yields its secrets
Quietly poetic documentary about Disneyland for retirees
by Veronica LeeThursday, 13 May 2021
Cheerleading is one of many activities on offer to residents of The Villages in Florida
In the UK, we usually get a peek inside The Villages in Florida every four years, when intrepid reporters take to their golf carts in the retirement community to test the water in presidential elections among its 132,000 residents. Their views provide a useful guide as to where the silver-haired vote stands.
Some Kind of Heaven, 2021(Film still)
Director Lance Oppenheim shares the story of his directorial debut, Some Kind of Heaven, which explores the strange reality of The Villages – Florida’s famed retirement community
May 11, 2021
“I grew up in South Florida and The Villages are in central Florida. Any time there was a slow news day my local newspaper would print the most outrageous headlines from The Villages,” says
Lance Oppenheim on his initial encounter with the famed retirement community and the subject of his directorial debut,
Some Kind of Heaven. “When I was in middle school there was a myth about the high rate of STDs and the papers got a real kick out of it, lampooning and judging the residents for their more hedonistic ways of living.”
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SOME KIND OF HEAVEN ★★★★☆
Directed by Lance Oppenheim. Featuring Dennis Dean, Lynn Henry, Anne Kincer, Reggie Kincer. VOD, 81 min The Villages, a sprawling, profoundly plastic Florida retirement community, takes up three counties, and houses 130,000 mostly white baby boomers in a Trump-heavy voting block some 45 miles from Orlando. This excellent documentary on the complex leans towards the ambience of Blue Velvet: there’s a compelling soap opera bubbling under the sterile surface. In their quest to live comfortable, tyrannically upbeat lives, the inhabitants are barely living at all. Debut director Lance Oppenheim may be a twentysomething, but he still finds plenty of drama, nuance and humanity.
Some Kind of Heaven: Dark undercurrents in the last resort
Portrait of life in a Florida retirement community has shades of Blue Velvet
Film Title: Some Kind of Heaven
Director: Dennis Dean, Lynn Henry, Anne Kincer, Reggie Kincer
Starring: Dennis Dean, Lynn Henry, Anne Kincer, Reggie Kincer
Genre: Documentary
The Villages, a sprawling, profoundly plastic Florida retirement community, takes up three counties, and houses 130,000, mostly white baby boomers in a Trump-heavy voting block some 45 miles north-west of Orlando.
With its whizzing golf carts, regimented exercises, cocktails and crooned standards in the 1950s-inspired Town Square, The Villages is variously described as “God’s waiting room” and “Disney World for retirees”. For this viewer, the chilling conformity of the place evoked Squidward’s stifling stay at the gated community of Squidville in Spongebob Squarep
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