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Bдaли от нее (2006 )
Grant and Fiona Anderson have been married for forty-four years. Their marriage has been a generally happy and loving one although not perfect due to some indiscretions when Grant was working as a college professor. Fiona has just been admitted to Meadowlake, a long term care facility near their country home in southwestern Ontario, because her recent lapses of memory have been diagnosed as a probable case of Alzheimer's disease. She and Grant made this decision together, although a still lucid Fiona seems to have made peace with the decision and her diagnosis more so than Grant. With respect to the facility, what Grant has the most difficulty with are what he sees as the sadness associated with the facility's second floor - where the more advanced cases are housed - but most specifically the facility's policy of no visitors within the first thirty days of admission to allow the patient to adjust more easily to their new life there. Based on what he sees when he is finally able to. Written by Huggo
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Writer-director Sarah Polley had intended her feature film debut to be based on a script she wrote about a 12-year-old actress starring on a television series. She was unable to get the project green lighted, and turned to another, an adaptation of one of her favorite short stories, Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain". The story deals with a couple in their sixties coping with the wife's Alzheimer's disease. See more »
The misspelling of Fiona's name by Fiona herself is a typical and revealing error made by Alzheimer's patients. Coming as it does just after Grant has tried to use the episode of her remembering the recent walk in the park and finding the skunk lilies as a means of continuing his denial, the misspelling brings home to him the futility of his resistance to the truth about her condition. See more »
Kristy. It's never too late to become what you might have been.
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Prelude in C, from 'Das Wohltemperierte Clavier', Book One (BWV 846)
Written by Johann Sebastian Bach (as J.S. Bach)
Performed by Jonathan Goldsmith (piano)
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So Moving and the Director is so young - Is the AMPAS bunch watching this ?
Sarah Polley is under 30 and "Away From Her" is a genius project for any age of filmmaker. Wow. Just amazed at the sensitivity of the direction and the spectacular performances.
Julie Christie is so adept at convincing her audience, there wasn't a dry eye at our screening.
Gordon Pinsent and Olymia Dukakis were equally as gripping in this quiet, realistic tale.
If it doesn't get an Oscar for somebody - there is REALLY something wrong with the distribution and/or with AMPAS.
come along everyone !
Give Sarah your votes.
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