A truly international film star, Jacqueline Bisset first came to prominence in the 1960s with roles in The Detective, Bullitt, and The Sweet Ride, for which she received a most promising newcomer Golden Globe nomination. In the 1970s, she starred in Airport, Day for Night which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Murder on the Orient Express, The Deep, and Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress in a Comedy.

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Russell Brown’s Loren & Rose is a film that shocked and surprised me in terms of its authentic feel and effectiveness bred from such a simple concept. A director and a legendary actress have a full meal together over the course of six years—an appetizer, a main course, and a dessert.

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Over several repasts in a gourmet restaurant in the hippie environs of Topanga Canyon, Loren and Rose embark on a verbal (and emotional) pas de deux that stretches for years.

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Kelly Blatz plays Loren, a young director courting Rose, a famous actress played by Jacqueline Bisset. They meet at a quaint restaurant in Topanga for a meal that’s also an audition for Loren’s new film. As in the 1981 Louis Malle classic My Dinner with Andre, dialogue dominates what follows. Loren and Rose, it turns out, have a lot to talk about, and both are wonderful listeners. Unlike the earlier film, the meal is split into three distinct moments in time. The appetizer course occurs as the two get to know each other.

She’s funny, honest, direct and mesmerizing. She also has cancer. The most heart-rending aspect of Loren & Rose is the way two people of different ages learn to trust, love, and contribute to each other’s lives in an intense, mutually beneficial friendship, and then how they learn to adjust to encroaching tragedy and ultimate change. The woman helps him evolve as a creative artist and face the future with pride, and the boy helps her face the end with strength and courage. All accomplished, I must add, with total naturalism and not a pinch of sentimentality or forced emotion.

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