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Some Kind Of Heaven, an entrancing new documentary about life in a massive Florida retirement community, the mind may drift to a whole library of movies about the plastic unreality of suburban life. Partially, that’s because the film’s director, 24-year-old Lance Oppenheim, plainly takes some cues, visual and tonal, from touchstones of the genre. But it’s also because his subject, the so-called “Disney World for retirees,” was essentially built from the same psychic blueprint as those films: the nostalgic dream image of an unblemished American yesterday, a boomer paradise more imagined than remembered. What Oppenheim has found, in his first feature film, is a real place every bit as art-directed as
The documentary Some Kind of Heaven chronicles love at a Florida retirement community
Michael O Sullivan, The Washington Post
Jan. 13, 2021
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1of3Barbara Lochiatto, a resident of The Villages, is one of the subjects of the documentary Some Kind of Heaven. Magnolia PicturesShow MoreShow Less
2of3Dennis Dean in Some Kind of Heaven. Magnolia PicturesShow MoreShow Less
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The last time the population of The Villages was examined with any scrutiny was this past summer, when a rally by residents of the central Florida retirement community in support of President Donald Trump made headlines, after a participant in a parade of golf carts was heard to angrily shout, White power at a group of counterprotesters. A video clip of the incident was shared on Twitter (and later deleted) by the president himself.
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