Is she getting even with him for cheating he did earlier in their marriage? As the distance between husband and wife grows, Grant must draw upon his love for Fiona to perform an act of self-sacrifice in order to ensure her happiness. Anyone who could read Munro’s original story and think they could make a film of it, and then make a great film, deserves a certain awe. [6], In the United Kingdom, Away from Her opened on 27 April 2007. But for my money, there was no film that moved me more than this all year. Polley claimed to be impressed by Alice Munro's piece, saying "I found it so moving and poignant and it went so deep in me". While seeing his wife grow closer to Aubrey, Grant becomes an unhappy voyeur when visiting his wife at the nursing home. She regards reality without blinking. They’re retired, live in a cottage overlooking fields that are perfect for cross-country skiing. Polley with her camera takes the material, finds an uncanny balance in her casting, and bathes the film in the mercy of simple truth. The movie says as much for her strength of character as for her skills. Sarah Polley, whose “Away From Her” is a heartbreaking masterpiece, has the courage to simply observe the devastation of the disease. For the first time in the five decades their relationship has spanned, they are forced to undergo a long-time separation since the nursing home has a "no-visitors" policy for the first 30 days of a patient's stay, so they can adjust to their new surroundings. Sarah Polley read the short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" in The New Yorker when she was on a flight from working on Hal Hartley's No Such Thing in Iceland. | [10], By 8 June 2007, Mongrel Media and Capri Releasing reported the film had grossed $1 million in Canada. As it turns out, Aubrey has a wife named Marian (Olympia Dukakis), and Grant visits her, at first wondering if she could consider moving her husband to another place. It was afterwards featured in the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival. [25] Lionsgate Films also chose to concentrate on promoting Christie in its Academy Award campaigning. 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. Remember the first time we made love? It was theatrically released on May 4, 2007 and garnered critical acclaim, with critics praising Christie's performance and Polley's screenplay and direction. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. One reason we get married is that we need a witness to our lives. The one aware character is Kristen Thomson as Kristy, the kind nurse who gives Grant practical advice. The end of the film is supposed to indicate that Theodore has overcome the crippling insecurities that were stimulated by the failure of his relationship with Catherine. Grant is touched by this, and visits Marian in an effort to allow Fiona to see Aubrey again. Showing all 4 items Jump to: Summaries (3) Synopsis (1) Summaries. [5], The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2006. [8] The film appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2007. Throughout the film, Grant's reflections on his marriage are woven with his reflections on his own infidelities, and influence his eventual decisions regarding Fiona's happiness. Directed by Sarah Polley. The title, Away From Her, references Grant’s feelings about Fiona on the day she proposed marriage to him: “I took her up on it. McGill, Robert, "No Nation but Adaptation: Demetrios Matheou, "Not Remembering to Forget", in: This page was last edited on 5 October 2020, at 02:40. 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. The performances here are carefully controlled, as they must be, so that we see no false awareness slipping out from behind the masks; no sense that the Julie Christie character is in touch with a more complete reality than, from day to day, she is. There are few great love stories replayed in the closing days, few books written, few flashbacks as enjoyable for the victims as they are for us. She tends him like her own patient, and seems indifferent, even vague, about Grant. The request is to see to both Fiona and his own happiness in this unfortunate situation. Synopsis He eventually succeeds in taking Aubrey back to visit his wife. What can I say, I like movies that make me cry, and nothing did that better. After Fiona wanders away and is found after being lost, they agree she must go into a nursing home. Marian initially refuses, but the meeting leads to a tentative relationship between her and Grant. And “Memory of a Killer” stars Jan Decleir in an unforgettable performance as an aging Belgian hit man who wants to retire, and undertakes one last job in which he fights against the fading of his light to bring about an extraordinary outcome. [2] She also envisioned her No Such Thing co-star Julie Christie as Fiona. Who is “we?” What is “love?”. 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. All of the films mentioned above are reviewed at www.rogerebert.com. [21][22][23][24], Word about possible Academy Award recognition for Away from Her began at the Toronto International Film Festival, and critics associations particularly recognized Julie Christie for her performance. [2], At that point of Polley's career, she had acted and had directed numerous short films, while the Munro adaptation would be her first feature film as director. A caregiver at the facility befriends Grant and gives him some advice and support. [19], Variety's Dennis Harvey complimented it for "a low-key, intelligent setting for performances marked by those same qualities", singling out Pinsent and Christie. Grant (Pinsent) and Fiona (Christie) are a retired married couple living in rural Brant County, Ontario. And that is enough about the plot. Despite being wary of this policy, Grant agrees at the insistence of his wife whom he loves. 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I was reminded of Bergman’s “Winter Light” (1962), which bathes despair in merciless daylight. He would rather see his wife happy with another man than miserable and alone. Rent it. They embrace.

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