| | Away From Her | |
Description
Canadian actress Sarah Polley makes an impressive directorial debut with AWAY FROM HER a film adapted from the Alice Munro story The Bear Came Over The Mountain. The plot concerns the way in which the 50-year marriage of Grant (Gordon Pinsent) and Fiona (Julie Christie) deteriorates with the progression of Fiona s Alzheimer s disease. Rich scenery intimate cinematography and familiar songs like Neil Young s Helpless create a private world of two people enviably in love. Fiona and Grant have carved out a piece of the world for themselves and have lived together happily in their later years until Fiona s memory started to wane. The harmony in their lives is lost when Fiona decides she s reached the point of no return and enters a retirement home in order to take the burden off Grant though he can think of nothing worse than being away from her. After dropping Fiona off Grant is forced to not visit for 30 days which as he fears ends up feeling much longer in the mind of a person who is losing her memory. AWAY FROM HER features stunning performances from its leads as well as from Michael Murphy as Aubrey (a patient Fiona forms a close bond with) Olympia Dukakis as Aubrey s wife and Kristen Thomson as a nurse at the facility. Instead of treating old age as the winding down of life this film portrays it as a potentially rich enjoyable period. Grant and Fiona never yearn for the days of their youth but rather for the later years when their intimacy had reached a higher peak. While so many films portray older characters in a one-dimensional way Polley s film portrays its characters as multifaceted people filled with wisdom and true beauty thanks to their age and not in spite of it.
Technical Details
Region 2
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound: Dolby Digital
Running Time: 105 minutes
Production Year: 2007
Main Language: English
Genre: Drama
Certificate: 12 Suitable for Persons Aged 12 or Over
Directed by: Sarah Polley
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