Mabel
2016-01-01 | 20 minutes
Plot Summary
Feisty, fiercely independent and firmly rooted in place, 90 year-old Mabel Robinson broke barriers back in the 40s when she became the first woman in Hubbards, Nova Scotia, to launch her own business—a hairdressing salon where she still provides shampoo-n-sets over 70 years later. Weaving animation and archival imagery with intimate and laugh out loud moments in the salon, the film celebrates the power of friendship, doing what you love and staying active. With no desire to retire anytime soon, Mabel gives voice to a generation who are not front and center of cinema or the pop hairstyles of the day, and subtly shifts the lens on our perception of beauty and the elderly.
Cast
Recommendations
Similar Movies
-
Double Dare
-
9-Man
-
Black Ice
-
Iverson
-
Come Worry with Us!
-
Absences
-
The Chaplain & the Doctor
-
Jaha's Promise
-
I Am Evidence
-
Towards Tenderness
-
Plains: Testimony of an Ethnocide
-
The Domino Effect
-
Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier
-
Just Add Water: The Story of the Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys
-
There is No Death For Me
-
On Native Soil
-
Maison du Bonheur
-
Dominguinhos
-
The American Nurse
-
From Both Sides Of The Aegean: Expulsion And Exchange Of Populations, Turkey-Greece 1922-1924