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These brave and determined people are coming towards the end of their lives with great good cheer. Some of the choir clearly prefer classical music, but rock is what sets their feet tapping, so that’s what they perform. Besides, opera at 80 is a bit of a strain.

Stephen Walker’s affectionate but seldom sentimental film is too long and his own commentary often seems superfluous. It’s a bit messy, too.

It includes much of the hard grind of rehearsals and some piquant Sally George music videos made with the group, but not quite enough of their extraordinary concert footage where audiences invariably lavish standing ovations upon them.
There are, however, two unforgettable sequences almost certain to have everyone grasping at their hankies. One is where the group sing to convicts in a local jail, ending with a rendition of Bob Dylan’s Forever Young that moves the prisoners to tears.

The other is an elderly Fred Knittle, with oxygen at the ready, singing Coldplay’s Fix You as a tribute to his two dead friends at a concert in a provincial town that’s full to overflowing.
These two scenes are as moving as anything you will see on the screen in London just now. They more than justify a film which, despite its faults, makes the winter of life less terrifying than it’s made out to be.

Young @ Heart
Cert: PG