Mitch McCabe's "Youth Knows No Pain" is a very interesting study in the nation's obsession with aging. By following several characters, notably Sherry, who can't seem to stop getting surgery, and Norm, who has transformed himself to look like Jack Nicholson, McCabe is able to achieve an intimacy with the subject of aging that is not present on most of the media surrounding the issue. This intimacy is helped, of course, by McCabe's own presence in the film—as a narrator and character herself she frames the documentary with her own experiences, which grounded the movie (for me, at least). I saw "Youth Knows No Pain" at a preview screening in NY. You will experience lots of laughs and—notably—a sobering sense of reality about your own understanding of age.
Review of Youthh Knows No Pain
