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Away From Her [2007]
from Metrodome Distribution
starring Julie Christie, Olympia Dukakis, Gordon Pinsent, Michael Murphy, Wendy Crewson
directed by Sarah Polley

Features:

• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Kudos to Polley
  Away From Her in equal parts broke my heart, terrified me, and restored my faith in human kindness. This is a film about the path of destruction Alzheimer's leaves in its wake. The three leads... the always classy Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent and Olympia Dukakis, are all at the top of their game. And kudos to Sarah Polley for her excellent writing & direction - in lesser hands a film like this could've ended up with a Hallmark movie-of-the-week feel.
  Instead we're gifted with an incredibly... more info

• From Lovers to Strangers
  
  "Don't worry, I'm just losing my mind" she quips when he catches her absently putting a frying pan in the freezer. But it's not a joke: Fiona has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's." Dennis Harvey
  Fiona, Julie Christie, is in the midst of Alzheimer's. She is having symptoms and when she becomes lost in the cold she makes the decision to enter a facility for care. Fiona and her husband, Grant, a retired professor, played by Gordon Pinsent , live on a lake in Ontario and have been married for over 40... more info

• flawed but thought provoking
  There is a quiet stillness in this film, in the depiction of Altzhiemers. The reaction from the main character to her increasing dementia is largely internal. She goes for beautifully shot walks in the snow. This leads the viewer to struggle with one of the main weaknesses in the plot. Why voluntarily commit yourself to a nursing home when you're still able to function? The film cant really get around this flaw and I was left to question if the character played with a bit too much stoical dignity by Julie... more info

• The best of 2007: NO: 16
  First time director Sarah Polley tells a wonderfull story of a husband and wife (played by Gordon Pinsent and Julie Christie) who are faced with the realization that the wife has alzheimers and can no longer live in the outside world, so together they decide to admit her into a home. What follows is a harrowing portrait of how this disease affects not just the victim but those close around.
  The performance from Julie Christie is rightly being praised by various award ceremonies but it is the... more info

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