Away from Her
A highly intelligent look at the relationship between a husband and wife of 44 years when the wife succumbs to Alzheimers and has to be admitted to a special home. Intelligent and indescribably sad at the same time. It is not a film to enjoy but rather a sobering and perceptive look at what people go through with this illness. To new director Sarah Polley’s credit, we are spared clichés, gore and gratuitous embarrassment and we actually confront the sort of reality that spouses face in these situations complete with the fact that short term memory may fail but long term memory lasts longer.
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