AARP Long Island Free Movie Event!

Welcome!  AARP Long Island is proud to collaborate with the Gold Coast Arts Center for a free movie, celebrating National Family Caregivers Month.

November 9, 2026

7:00pm (doors open at 6:30pm)

North Shore Towers Cinema

27240 Grand Central Parkway, Floral Park, NY 11005
*The Cinema is in Building 2 (the middle building).

Please join AARP and Gold Coast International Film Festival for a special encore screening of the award-winning film DRIVING MADELINE, with English subtitles

Presented free by AARP in honor of National Caregivers Month.

About the film: A seemingly simple taxi ride across Paris evolves into a profound meditation on the realities of the driver and his fare, a 92-year-old woman whose warmth belies her shocking past. 

Charles (Dany Boon) is a taxi driver in Paris, and he is having a very bad day. Enter Madeleine (Line Renaud), an immaculately groomed nonagenarian, who informs Charles that the trip today will not be a direct one. She is moving into a nursing home and would like to make some stops along the way predicting that this might be her last car ride through the city. Their ride takes them through the momentous locations of her life and their brief friendship deepens as Madeleine listens to Charles confess his own worries. Boon, an actor best known for his comedic work, creates a dramatic portrait of a frustrated man facing a personal crisis of epic proportions. His darker, sharper edges allow Renaud (renowned for decades in France as a singer) to shine as the pure shimmering light that is Madeleine, reminding us that inside every seemingly benign elderly woman we might pass on the street is a warrior, a nurturer, and a spirited adventurer.

“A heartwarmer.” -New York Times

“Little gem of a movie.” -The Sydney Morning Herald

“They are both irresistibly cast with exceptional veteran stars who both grab the heart and never let go.” -Deadline

"By the end of the film, all of us were in tears ….. you can make a profound connection with someone simply by telling the truth." -Barbra Streisand