Movie: While We’re Young

The film starts with a quote, pretty much asking why you would want to mix with young people, so that gets my middle-aged attention.After that, this relatively short film about a couple in their early 40s who hook up with a twenty something married duo moves at a good enough pace to stop me getting too annoyed with the youngsters.Ben Stiller plays a documentary maker, Josh, married to a producer whose father is a well-respected film maker. The young couple, also film enthusiasts,  befriend Josh when they attend his lecture and quickly infiltrate his life, meeting all his family and taking full advantage of the connections this opens up to them. It takes a while for Josh to realise he is being manipulated and this is when the film goes all Woody Allen; no one believes him and even if they do, they accept that the young film maker is just ambitious and using every means necessary to get his film made.He succeeds.This film is frustrating. I want to shake each and every character to wake them up and show them how lovely their life already is and just embrace it! And I want to teach that whippersnapper-film-idea-stealer a lesson.If the film wanted provocation, it got it from me.Thankfully it has a happyish ending.5/10Smile factor 2/10