If you’re into May-December love stories—recent ones include Baby Girl, The Idea of You, and Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy—you may like the movie that paved the way for the characters played by Nicole Kidman, Anne Hathaway, and Renée Zellweger. No, we’re not talking about The Graduate’s Mrs. Robinson, predatory and manipulative. We mean the 79-year-old, happy-go-lucky Maude. The 1971 film Harold and Maude is a romantic comedy of sorts that follows the budding relationship between 20-year-old Harold, who is obsessed with death (he drives a hearse, no less), and the much older Maude, who teaches him all about the good things in life: music, art, stealing cars, and dancing. Expect the journey to be bittersweet, from beginning to end. —Carolina de Armas
The Arts Intel Report
Harold and Maude
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An image from Harold and Maude, 1971.
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