The Life Ahead (2020)

This is by no means Sophia Loran's best role, but she jons a host of elderly actors still making it up on the silver screen. She got her first movie role in 1950 and she was 15 years old, and here she is 70 years later still making it work. The short listed documentary, What Would Sophia Loren Do? is a companion to this movie, made contemporanious to it, and should really be watched first because it chronicles some of her most powerful performances, and explains what she means to some older woman around the world in terms of portraying women with fortitude. This film, nominated for an Oscar for best song, documents an elderly woman named Madame Rosa, maybe a former prostitute, definitely a Holocaust survivor, who has taken in those who have no where to go and provided a home to them. Her most recent adoptee is Momo, short for Mohammed, a boy from Senegal who is wrapped up with selling drugs and skipping school. He gets help from a host of people around him, but comes to love Rosa best, and when he sees her deteriorating he protects her to the end. The movie is a quiet one, lacking some of the grit the subject matter has in real life, but not unpleasant to watch, and she is a legend.