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They reject the youth-culture diktat that age makes you invisible, and offer us all an example of self-acceptance.
Robert Everett-Green, Globe and Mail
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Advanced Style
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Advanced Style examines the lives of seven unique New Yorkers whose eclectic personal style and vital spirit have guided their approach to aging. Based on Ari Seth Cohen’s famed blog of the same name, this film paints intimate and colorful portraits of independent, stylish women aged 62 to 95 who are challenging conventional ideas about beauty, aging, and Western’s culture’s increasing obsession with youth.
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"Advanced Style" is appropriately fun, frivolous and baroquely ornamented by its subjects who sing, perform, model and occasionally sound like teenagers, while dressing a lot better.
John Anderson, Newsday
Fresh
The way the women occupy Cohen and Plioplyte's spotlight is a lesson in aging well, a lesson that begins with the refusal to play by the rule that says to grow older, especially for women, is to fade into the shadows.
Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
These women are living life to the fullest - and they are inviting us to do the same.
David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
Inspired by Ari Seth Cohen's blog by the same name, "Advanced Style" is a love letter to older women who've elevated dressing to an art form.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
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