In this illuminating film about definitions of what love actually is, Rebecka Rasmusson, acclaimed documentarian, feels able to take her place beside her phenomenal subject, Alice Timander, 90 year-old celebrity, in order to eloquently express profound insights into her own life, love and single-motherhood. Female dentist-come-Foyer-Queen of First Nights, Alice has been the darling of photographers for more than 60 years, and is just about to have her swanky 90th birthday party when the film starts. Alice’s curious definition of love is “being seen.” Having spent a life-time rejecting “bodily company,” she feels most loved standing in a theatre lobby corner smiling, wearing ostentatious outfits, and in the process “neglecting her own children,” as her daughter, stunning unmarried dentist now resident in the States, later blatantly accuses her of.

“Alice” is an excellent portrait of female philosopher, self-possessed glamour-puss, and a courageously honest participant in life’s strange games.