Young and Old: The Odd Sides of the Sandwich Generation
Scholars have a name for the twentieth-first century adults that get caught up in the care of their elderly parents and younger kids. They call it the “Sandwich Generation.” Claude Berri’s film The Two of Us (1967) offers a tender portrait of the sides of this group. Claude, an 8-year-old Jewish boy, and Pepe, an old anti-Semitic veteran, are temporarily pushed out of the lives of working adults and forced to live together. Initially, the odd couple seems to belong […]
Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: children, education, ethics, film, French, movies, sociology
