CHRISTIAN VAZQUEZ

SOME KIND OF HEAVEN (2021)
Starring Dennis Dean, Lynn Henry, Anne Kincer, Reggie Kincer and Gary Schwartz. Directed by Lance Oppenheim.

Explores life inside the palm-tree-lined streets of The Villages, America’s largest retirement community in Florida. Referred to as the “Disneyland for Retirees”, this planned community is home to over 130,000 seniors. It offers residents a utopian version of the American yesteryear: wide, safe streets, perfectly manicured lawns, and countless activities all in service of enjoying their golden years. While most residents have bought into its packaged positivity, we meet four residents living on the margins, striving to find happiness. Married couple Anne and Reggie wrestle with Reggie’s deteriorating grip on reality, Barbara, a widow, seeks second love, and Dennis, an 82-year-old bachelor living out of a van, looks for a way out of a peripatetic existence.

REVIEWS Some Kind of Heaven - A bizarre lens into a Floridian retirement village