Away from Her
starring: Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis, Michael Murphy, Wendy Crewson
directed by: Sarah Polley
directed by: Sarah Polley
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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: CHRISTIE,JULIE
EAN: 0031398217954
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 11, 2007
Running Time: 110 minutes
Sales Rank: 2266
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 8-JAN-2008
Media Type: DVD
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'I'm going,' says a lovely, understated Julie Christie, in a heart-wrenching moment of recognition that Alzheimer's is slowly descending on her. 'But I'm not gone.' Away from Her, the directorial debut of young Canadian actress Sarah Polley, allows two themes--the growth of love, and the limits of the mind--to intertwine, uplift, fall, and rise again, throughout its arc. What should be relentlessly depressing is instead a film of great courage, humor, defiance--and a quality that Christie's character, Fiona, calls out in another defining moment: grace.
Away from Her chronicles a love story between Fiona and her longtime husband, Grant, played with bearlike stolidity by Gordon Pinsett, as the couple struggle with the onset and acceleration of Fiona's Alzheimer's disease. Moments of lucidity and wry observation pepper Fiona's decline, and Christie gives an unforgettable performance as a woman who is both ordinary and singular to those whom she's touched. The story is set against a frigid Canadian winter, with fields of snow as a background underscoring the bleakness of Fiona's diagnosis; yet life is constant and surprising, in the call of a meadowlark or the resurrected memory of a skunk lily. A scene of Fiona out for her daily cross-country ski shows Christie's gorgeous, sensual face in closeup against the snow, framed by a babushka, reminding the viewer of a similar scene of the decades-younger Christie in Dr. Zhivago. It's impossible not to be touched by the gifts of this extraordinary actress, through the life of this everywoman, whose very presence is shot through with grace. --A.T Hurley
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- Away from Her - flawed but movingI agree with those who say that the Alzheimer's facility in the movie is too good to be true. Even ... Read More
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- Gentle, Moving Film About DementiaI thought this movie was very nice about a husband who is slowly losing his wife to Alzheimer's Disease. ... Read More
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- sad but good moviethis movie is about a couple, married for many years, who now face dementia in the wife. she knows what is ... Read More
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- Slow-moving, melancholy but good ... This slow-paced and melancholy film traces the development of Alzheimer's on one woman and the seismic impact ... Read More
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- Heart-breaking story wonderfully actedYou can read other reviews here for the plot synopsis or rave reviews of the performances. Some reviewers said ... Read More
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