Artistic Meanderings and Occasional Soul Searching

Originally posted at MySpace:

Oh my. Away From Her is one of the loveliest films I’ve seen in a long time. Low-key, yet utterly involving. Julie Christie and Olympia Dukakis are names and talent that go without explanation, but Gordon Pinsent as the husband riveted me, and broke my heart. I know I have seen him in other projects but they are dim memories. Very rarely have I seen on film a married couple who had such a great understanding of one another and shown with such economy that it seems utterly natural. If I had been the wife watching my husband succumb to Alzheimer’s and falling in love with someone else, I don’t know that I could have survived it. What a marvelous meditation on love, commitment and letting go.