My Old Lady vs What We Wanted to Be
What We Wanted to Be has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6.2/10 for My Old Lady). What We Wanted to Be is the shorter watch at 1h 24m compared with 1h 47m. My Old Lady is the older of the two (2014 against 2024). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
My Old Lady
What We Wanted to Be| My Old Lady | What We Wanted to Be | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.2/10 | ★ 7.8/10 |
| Year | 2014 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 47m | 1h 24m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | France | Argentina |
| Director | Israel Horovitz | Alejandro Agresti |
| Main cast | Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline, Dominique Pinon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Noémie Lvovsky | Eleonora Wexler, Luis Rubio, Antonio Agresti, Carlos Gorosito |
Synopsis
My Old Lady
Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he's shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge. His apartment is a viager—an ancient French real estate system with complex rules pertaining to its resale—and the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde Girard, who has lived in the apartment with her daughter Chloé for…
What We Wanted to Be
An impossible love story that begins outside a movie theater, continues in a café and could end with the two protagonists together… if real life wasn’t much more complicated than the movies. United by their love of cinema, these two main characters decide to live the lives they dreamed of and not the lives they are destined to live. In a series of encounters, imagination triumphs over reality and everyday reality takes a back seat.
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