The fictional county of Holt, where the film and Kent Haruf's novel are set, is in Eastern Colorado. Holt is a composite of the three Colorado towns where the author grew up: Wray, Holyoke and Yuma. All of Haruf's novels take place in the fictional town of Holt.
Jane Fonda stated at the Venice Film Festival that she learned a lot acting with Matthias Schoenaerts, who plays her son in the movie, and described his acting as both modest and exuberant.
Adaptation of Kent Haruf's novel "Our Souls at Night". Haruf wrote the novel under a death sentence, just months before his death of lung cancer at age 71, in November 2014. The novel was published posthumously in May 2015.
This is the fourth film that Jane Fonda and Robert Redford starred in together, and after 38 years of their last on-screen reunion. Their previous collaborations were The Chase (1966), Barefoot in the Park (1967), and The Electric Horseman (1979). "Our Souls at Night" was shot in 2016, exactly 50 years after the release of the first film they worked together, "The Chase".
The film was shot primarily in the Old Colorado City neighborhood of Colorado Springs, Colorado, on West Pikes Peak Ave. between South 11th and South 12th Sts. The Queen Anne Victorian houses here were built in the late 1890s to the early 1900s.
During filming, Ms. Fonda was charming and mingled frequently with the neighbors watching the production, making a point to speak with some special needs and younger children.
During filming, Ms. Fonda was charming and mingled frequently with the neighbors watching the production, making a point to speak with some special needs and younger children.