Thirty years after a chance encounter, Maggie and Joel, aged 75 and 84, are still very much in love. But their relationship is not without complications. Born in the hard-boiled Bronx, Joel Meyerowitz is a world-renowned photographer with major exhibitions and 40 books to his name. British-born Maggie Barrett is a talented but less recognized artist and writer. There is a knot of unease in their relationship, which is further strained when Maggie falls and breaks her leg, and Joel must take on her caregiving. In the shadow of mortality, each with a long and dramatic life behind them, the hard truths of life together provoke Maggie and Joel to attempt to find a shared inner peace while there is still time. With unique access to the couple's lives, being a couple themselves, directors Jacob Perlmutter and Manon Ouimet have created a profoundly moving film about living, creating, and loving.
As a story of a marriage of creative people maintaining their connection despite many frustrations, it reveals a specific narrative many people will relate to. —Murtada Elfadl, Variety
This film is about a lot more than a woman living in the shadow of a famous man: it is about love, caring, identity, creativity, aging and dying. —Vladan Petkovic, Cineuropa
With the female-male maker/subject symmetry, we hope that the film provides conversations around gender balance of any and all configurations. Maggie and Joel also belong to an older demographic often marginalised by society and seldom represented in film. — Matthew Carey, Deadline
