"Once you arrive here, you may not want to leave." - Detroit News
With Some Kind of Heaven, first-time feature director Lance Oppenheim cracks the manicured facade of The Villages, America’s largest retirement community – a massive, self-contained utopia located in Central Florida. Behind the gates of this palm tree-lined fantasyland, Some Kind of Heaven invests in the dreams and desires of a small group of Villages residents – and one interloper – who are unable to find happiness within the community’s pre-packaged paradise. With strikingly composed cinematography, this candy-colored documentary offers a tender and surreal look at the never-ending quest for finding meaning and love in life’s final act.
- Year2020
- Runtime83 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- RatingNR
- DirectorLance Oppenheim
- ProducerDarren Aronofsky, Simon Horsman, Kathleen Lingo, Lance Oppenheim, Melissa Oppenheim, Jeffrey Soros, Pacho Velez
- CinematographerDavid Bolen
- EditorDaniel Garber, Lance Oppenheim
- MusicAri Balouzian
"Once you arrive here, you may not want to leave." - Detroit News
With Some Kind of Heaven, first-time feature director Lance Oppenheim cracks the manicured facade of The Villages, America’s largest retirement community – a massive, self-contained utopia located in Central Florida. Behind the gates of this palm tree-lined fantasyland, Some Kind of Heaven invests in the dreams and desires of a small group of Villages residents – and one interloper – who are unable to find happiness within the community’s pre-packaged paradise. With strikingly composed cinematography, this candy-colored documentary offers a tender and surreal look at the never-ending quest for finding meaning and love in life’s final act.
- Year2020
- Runtime83 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- RatingNR
- DirectorLance Oppenheim
- ProducerDarren Aronofsky, Simon Horsman, Kathleen Lingo, Lance Oppenheim, Melissa Oppenheim, Jeffrey Soros, Pacho Velez
- CinematographerDavid Bolen
- EditorDaniel Garber, Lance Oppenheim
- MusicAri Balouzian