At ninety-five years previous, Catherine Kuehn used to be a world-record-holding powerlifter. “It’s been really easy for me,” she explains with a grin, “as a result of nobody my age used to be doing it.” “Robust Grandma,” the documentary brief by way of Cecilia Brown and Winslow Crane-Murdoch, follows Kuehn as she prepares for what is also her ultimate festival. (Kuehn, who used to be ninety-five years previous right through filming, is now ninety-seven.) We see Kuehn within the gymnasium, operating on her deadlift, hips hinging with practiced precision—her objective within the upcoming festival is to deadlift 100 kilos. She works out together with her coaching spouse, Peggy; we see the pair at a meet in combination, dressed in their singlets (“now not very changing into,” Kuehn remarks), sharing pastries and observation. Kuehn got here to powerlifting overdue in existence. She picked up the game in her eighties, along her husband, Dick, who has since handed. Her tale is as a lot concerning the enlivening energy of connection as it’s about grit and athleticism. “In case you have your soul mate rooting for you, you gotta do it. You simply gotta do it.”
