“Iris” is a terrific movie that pairs 87-year-old award-winning documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles, who co-directed “Salesman”, “Gimme Shelter” and “Grey Gardens”, with 93-year-old Iris Apfel.
For a woman in her 90s, Iris is amazingly young at heart and fiercely independent. She shuffles and shuttles between her condo in New York City, her condo in Florida, her parents’ condo also in New York and her huge storage space in the suburbs –– each overflowing with decades of weavings, art, clothing and jewelry.
In the film, she’s very quick-witted and always flamboyantly dressed with her signature oversized round, black-framed eyeglasses and colorful clothing.
The documentary features her creativity, her soaring free spirit, her seemingly endless energy, her drive to always collect interesting fashions and jewelry and her 65-year marriage to husband Carl, who turned 100 during the filming.
A few of Iris’s best lines from the movie:
- “Everything I have two of hurts”.
- “I feel lucky to be working. If you’re lucky enough to do something you love, everything else follows.
- “Tell them I’m still alive because I’m too cheap to pay for a funeral.”
Watch the trailer to “Iris” at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4157220/