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AWAY FROM HER
Wednesday, March 5
6:00
Based on the 1999 New Yorker story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain,” by Alice Munro.
Canada, 2006
Directed by Sarah Polley
Screenplay by Sarah Polley
With Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis
Approx. 110 min. 35mm print courtesy TIFF.
“Fiona (Julie Christie), an Ontario woman succumbing to Alzheimer’s, seems quite lost one second but then, as an intention pierces through a cloud of unhappiness, becomes crisp and incisive. Christie, turning a medical condition into a dramatic coup, makes it impossible for us merely to feel sorry for Fiona, and that toughness gives the film the abrupt, challenging intelligence of a fresh and exploratory work. With Gordon Pinsent, the veteran Canadian actor, who has a capacious gut, a fine beard, and the burnished aspect of an aging lion, as Grant, Fiona’s longtime husband; Michael Murphy as the stricken man whom Fiona falls in love with at an assisted-living facility; and Olympia Dukakis as the practical old broad who gives Grant a way to remain loyal yet survive as a man.” – David Denby, The New Yorker
Presented with support from the Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film
Reviews
“A lyrical portrait of what it means to stick with a person for the long run.”
– Paige Wiser, Chicago Sun-Times
AWAY FROM HER
Introduced by New Yorker Fiction Editor Deborah Treisman
Wednesday, March 5
6:00