A bus with 7 elderly women runs through the woods. They are comfortably singing together in the bus. What kind of group of the 7 women is, and where they are going to are not explained. The movie title says they are strangers, though the bus does not look a route bus. Anyhow, as the bus has an engine trouble, 8 women - the elderly women and a young driver – have to stay an abandoned house they found in the woods for several days. According to the brochure attached to my DVD, all women but the driver do not have acting experience. Although the situation is a fiction, every woman acts by her real name. The old day pictures of each woman may be her real ones. Therefore, this movie tries to show how the 7 elderly women behave in a fictional situation to wait for a rescue at an abandoned house in the woods. They soon eat up the foods they had. From the day 2, they only eat frogs, raspberries and fish. Yet they are quite alive and happy. They are left out of mobile phone network, but they enjoy bird watching, drawing, replacing a wig by a scarf, chatting about past life. The most impressing woman for me is Catherine, a nun. She wears as an ordinary woman. She could be a sacred music teacher. She challenges all day to fix the bus. Then she catches frogs to eat. In spite of rheumatism, she never staggers at the situation, and she does her best for the people, still she never forgets smiling. Anyhow, if they were men, it would be much less interesting story. I envy women.
Review of Strangers in Good Company
