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"April" opens with the image most of these films build to: A naked old woman with sagging breasts, trunk-like legs, and a bald head, portrayed by an actor in a full-body prosthetic suit.

I’m reminded of my former neighbor in Yucca Valley, California, a bubbly, friendly old woman who lived with her elderly son.

The rich old woman can’t bribe her away out of murder.

“It’s important for me, when I’m an old woman, to be able to play my grandkids these songs that I wrote for myself — to say, ‘These were my specific stories.’”

Before she has had a chance to venture forth into the world as an adult, she finds herself turning into an old woman.