Away from Her
Long married, Fiona and Grant find their mutual devotion tested by her struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Grant then faces an epiphany when Fiona transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheelchair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.
1942, Ontario, Canada
1966, Toronto, Canada
5 April 1965
9 January 1989, Sofia, Bulgaria
5 May 1938, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 January 1921, Paisley, Scotland, UK
12 July 1930, Grand Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
14 April 1940, Chabua, Assam Province, British India [now Assam, India]
6 March 1955, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
9 May 1956, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
1924, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
5 October 1979, Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
1967, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
20 June 1931, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
June 13, 2008
Christie is brilliant as steely but brittle Fiona, a woman who knows her mind completely and yet, in the end, cannot hang on to it, while Pinsent eloquently portrays the gradual ebbing away of a partnership, as delicate and unstoppable as snow-melt.
May 18, 2007
Beautifully written, from an Alice Munro short story, this movie directed by an actress rarely missteps, even when it bravely includes the dark humor inherent in this situation.
May 11, 2007
Sarah Polley's sad, wise and simply dazzling directorial effort beams with warmth.
February 20, 2008
Una bella historia de amor a merced de una enfermedad, filmada con delicadeza por Sarah Polley y sensiblemente interpretada por Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent y Olympia Dukakis.
September 25, 2010
No one dreams of the twilight transpiring in "Away From Her," but, in its words, it's not bad luck. It's just life. You can't beat life. A tenderly told tragedy about Alzheimer's Disease's erosive effects, Sarah Polley's film avoids movie-of-the-week sap.
May 21, 2007
Sarah Polley, a terrific actress, now serves notice that she is a director to watch.
May 11, 2007
Superb, from its subtle atmospheres to its fine performances. Julie Christie is exquisite as ever purveying the spirit of a woman whose radiance remains even as it dims like the glow of sunset on a snowbound lake.
August 27, 2009
Too content with its own "maturity" and "restraint," yet it invaluably offers Christie for audiences in delicate contemplation, and chaste consummation
January 12, 2008
A complex series of relationships revolve around a nursing home romance.
May 11, 2007
As this intimate, beautifully observed film unfolds, you realize that the story's themes are relevant no matter what age you happen to be.
February 02, 2008
A beautifully acted, poignant film about a man who slowly loses his wife to Alzheimer's.
May 11, 2007
Away From Her got to me in a way no other movie has this year, eliciting copious tears.
