OUR SOULS AT NIGHT

I love watching Robert Redford. He still has the effortless charisma that made him a star more than fifty years ago, and he’s ideally matched with Jane Fonda in Our Souls at Night. It’s their fourth collaboration; they are clearly comfortable together and accepting of their status as senior citizens. Whether audiences are as flexible about this matter is an open question; there is a temptation to want our movie stars to remain frozen in time. But Our Souls at Night could have been written with these actors in mind, and they adopt their fictional identities the way you or I would slip on an old shoe. The source material is the final novel by Kent Haruf, but the set-up resembles an old movie device known as “meeting…

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