Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other

In this tender and intimate view of life among artists, novelist Maggie Barrett and photographer Joel Meyerowitz are fast approaching their twilight years. As they learn the push and pull of caring for each other, we the viewers are regaled with a lifetime marked by creative epiphanies, career regrets…and hope.Thirty years after a chance encounter, Maggie and Joel—ages 75 and 84—are still very much in love. But their relationship is not without complications. Born in the hard-boiled Bronx, Joel Meyerowitz is a world-renowned photographer with major exhibitions and 40 books to his name. British-born Maggie Barrett is a talented but less recognized artist and writer. There is a knot of unease in their relationship, which is further strained when Maggie falls and breaks her leg and Joel becomes her caregiver. In the shadow of mortality, each with a long and dramatic life behind them, the hard truths of life together provoke in Maggie and Joel an attempt to find a shared inner-peace while there is still time. With unique access to the couple’s lives, directors Jacob Perlmutter and Manon Ouimet have created a profoundly moving film about living, creating, and loving.