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Mood:
- EmotionalGloomyBittersweetContemplativeSentimentalSincere
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Plot:
- Supportive SpouseAgingCouple RelationsElderlyLove and RomanceMind and SoulCouplesElderly Lovers more...
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Genres:
- DramaMelodramaRomance
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- CanadaRetirement Home
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- Critically Acclaimed
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- Based on Short Story
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Away From Her, 2006
English
Canada
Profile of Away From Her
Away From Her can be described as bittersweet, emotional, and gloomy. The plot revolves around a supportive spouse, aging, and couples relations. The main genres are drama and romance. In terms of style, Away From Her is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. Away From Her is located in Canada. It takes place in contemporary times. It is derived from a short story. Away From Her has received attention for being critically acclaimed. Note that it involves profanity.
Summary of Away From Her
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.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Canada |
| Release date: | 20 January 2007 |
| Runtime: | 110 min |
Cast and Crew
as Fiona Anderson
as Marian
as Grant Anderson
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Critics Reviews
Los Angeles Times
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- by: Carina Chocano
Washington Post
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- by: Ann Hornaday
Users Reviews
- 30.March.2009
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- by: Parker in MN
- Parker in MN rated this movie
10/10Must See
- 23.March.2009
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- by: prozac pop
- prozac pop rated this movie8/10Great
