Harold y Maude

Nineteen-year-old Harold Chasen is obsessed with death. He simulates suicides to surprise his self-centered mother, drives a hearse, and attends funerals for complete strangers. Seventy-nine-year-old Maude Chardin loves life. She frees trees from city sidewalks and transplants them into the woods, paints smiles on the faces of church statues, and "borrows" cars to remind their owners that life is fleeting, it's here today, not tomorrow! ! A chance meeting between the two turns into a crazy, dizzying romance, thanks to which Harold realizes that life is worth living and learns to play the banjo. Harold and Maude began as Colin Higgins' doctoral thesis at UCLA Film School, before becoming the celebrated 1971 film directed by Hal Ashby. The quirky, dark comedy became a cult work with a large following and in 1997 it was selected for inclusion in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Higgins' novel was published at the same time as the original film, but it has been out of print for more than three decades. A fundamental book for fans of the film, who will find in it a valuable complement, as it provides new elements and answers many of the unresolved questions in the film.