LOS ANGELES: After a career spanning seven decades, Oscar-winning actress Judi Dench rails against the notion of enforced retirement every bit as much as the character she plays in her latest film.
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel renews acquaintance with a guest list of fading retirees whose lust for life is reinvigorated by the fresh and unpredictable environment into which they find themselves cast.
Dench plays Evelyn, a widow who ends up running a business in her new home.
Their experiences are worlds away from the grim, one-dimensional fate Dench says awaits the elderly as skilled nursing home residents…