The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Hello! 

I realise it has been some time since my last post, but today I have lots of things to tell you guys!

Let us start with The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a film which starrs very famous (and let us say... veteran) actors such as Bill Nighy (Love Actually, Underworld), Judi Dench (M in James Bond films) or Maggie Smith (Harry Potter saga, Downton Abbey). We can also find Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire).

OK, so this film is about a "luxury hotel" for elders and it is in India, so these English people with nothing to lose go there expecting to live their last days in the shoes of a Maharajah. But what they find there is less than appealing given that Sonny (Dev Patel) is still trying to get the hotel going correctly.

In this very funny and sentimental film we see how each character develops a different view on what surrounds them, each with their own goals and hopes, but all the while we see the fight of each one of them to be happy.


"Everything will be alright in the end; if it's not alright then it's not the end". That is Sonny's phrase to keep him going in this dream hotal his father also dreamt about but never achieved.


I was not too keen on watching this movie, but when I did I really enjoyed it. The images of India are great and the dialogues are witty and also moving.
I mark it 8/10 and recommend it to whoever enjoys a laugh and a bit of emotion in a film.