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Jun 20, 2019 · Summary: The film addresses a timely subject matter: the onset of Alzheimer’s disease – increasingly prevalent in an ageing North American population – and its impact on the personal life of a married couple. Fiona and Grant face the gradual unravelling of their life together when her memory begins to fail. She gets lost near.
Away from Her is a 2006 Canadian independent drama film written and directed by Sarah Polley and starring Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent. Olympia Dukakis, Michael Murphy, Wendy Crewson, Alberta Watson, and Kristen Thomson are featured in supporting roles. The feature film directorial debut of Polley, it is based on Alice Munro 's short story ...
Oct 11, 2007 · Using sympathy and tenderness for its characters, “Away From Her” tells the story of a marriage that drifts out of the memory of the wife, and of the husband’s efforts to deal with that fact. We have two Canadian women to thank for this film: the writer and director, Sarah Polley (born 1979), and the author of the short story that ...
Dec 27, 1999 · Alice Munro. Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” – the basis for Sarah Polley’s film Away From Her — her prodigious talents are once again on display. As she follows Grant, a retired professor whose wife Fiona begins gradually to lose her memory and drift away ...
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Synopsis. Grant (Pinsent) and Fiona (Christie) are a retired married couple living in rural Brant County, Ontario. Fiona begins to lose her memory, and it becomes apparent she suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Throughout the film, Grant's reflections on his marriage are woven with his reflections on his own infidelities, and influence his ...
May 4, 2007 · By A.O. Scott. May 4, 2007. Away From Her Directed by Sarah Polley (Canada) In a refreshingly direct, unassuming manner, "Away From Her" considers two great human mysteries: the persistence of ...
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Mar 2, 2007 · Review: Away from Her. Sarah Polley’s directorial debut is a low-key, mature, and sensitive study of Alzheimer’s and its ramifications. by Nick Schager. March 2, 2007. Sarah Polley’s Away from Her opens with three shots of long-married couple Grant (Gordon Pinsent) and Fiona (Julie Christie) cross-country skiing, the first showing them ...
