Theatre too is chiming in with Half Life, the story of a couple who fall in love in a nursing home thinking they are rekindling an old flame. "The shock of seeing Foster (the therapist) having sex is an effective and unsettling reminder of how desexualised anyone older than 50 is in this society," wrote reviewer Mary McNamara in the Los Angeles Times early this month.
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The new cable TV series, which has been bought for Australia by the Ten Network, is sexually explicit, like Ten's current controversial series Californication, and portrays the sex lives of four couples, including that of an elderly therapist and her retired husband. The '60s sex symbol Julie Christie, now in her 60s, is back on the big screen in advance screenings this weekend, in the acclaimed Canadian production Away From Her, this time as an Alzheimer's patient who forms a love triangle when she checks into a nursing home and forgets who her husband is.Īmerican television, meanwhile, is being rocked by Tell Me You Love Me, from the edgy HBO network responsible for The Sopranos, Six Feet Under and Sex and the City. Richard Branson's Virgin Money set the cat among the pigeons with its recent Australian home loan advertising campaign that features septuagenarian couple Bill and Glenys Ferguson locked in various embraces in various states of undress. It's getting harder to shock the general public these days, but in an era where Viagra and cosmetic surgery seem to be shifting the ground beneath our feet, are we ready to tackle one of the last remaining taboos - old folks getting physical?