SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Matylda Swan It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

sol- Having reluctantly signed his wife into an institution after an Alzheimer's diagnosis, a Canadian college professor has to cope with his wife forgetting who he is in this low key yet potent drama. The film is best known for nabbing Julie Christie a Golden Globe and SAG award for her performance, yet she is curiously a supporting player here for the most part as the film progresses from being about her feeling that she is "beginning to disappear" to her husband coping with her condition. The film has drawn comparisons to the latter 'Still Alice', but whereas the Julianne Moore film is told from her point of view as she loses her mind, this one is really the husband's story. Happily, lead actor Gordon Pinsent is up to the task and delivers an even more layered performance than Christie's - one full of anger, sorrow, bitterness and resentment. The dialogue is also very good too, full of philosophical quips ("it's never too late to become what you may have been"). Focusing on the husband's perspective, 'Away from Her' does not quite deliver the same emotional jolts as 'Still Alice', but if one avoids drawing comparisons, it is a pretty solid film for a first time director (former child actress Sarah Polley). The intermittent flashbacks fit well into the yearning-for-past tapestry of the film too, though it would appear that some out there find them confusing.

SnoopyStyle Sarah Polley's directorial debut is an impressive one. Mostly, she was successful in picking great actors. Grant Anderson (Gordon Pinsent) is suffering as his wife Fiona (Julie Christie) slowly loses her memories. She has Alzheimer's disease and gets placed in a long term care facility.The whole movie takes place on the face of Gordon Pinsent. His pain is evident every time she can't remember him. It is truly heartbreaking. Julie Christie delivers one of her greatest performances. She doesn't overact. The confusion isn't theatrical which could so easily taken as comical. It is a quiet suffering on the scraggly old face of Pinsent. The one out of step moment is the passing old man who comments that Grant's heart is breaking into a thousand pieces. It's too obvious and too on the nose.There is something about veteran actors taking all their life experiences and putting it on the screen. It's something that can't be faked. And it can't be done with younger actors. We saw a man breaking right in front of us on the screen.

Dr-Bahaa Mostafa Kamel I've got this obsession about Alzheimer's disease since years, and still. Getting to imagine how Gordon Pinsent shouted "yesss" to her, and living up with this miserable hugely depressing disease. Specially feeling for Julie Christie gave me the impression so clearly and the feelings were so intense to be hard to feel. Yet the concept of "making a decision to be happy" is too real, but too betraying as well. It's more than excellent movie ..Happiness is what you choose to remember, Julie Christie's spectacular performance is just unbearable ..But and a big but here, from a medical point of view, the script was lacking some important points through the process of Alzheimer's disease, missing those points reflected a different image for the disease to the public, and didn't show the real suffering of anyone that had to deal with that kind of disease ..That's all :)

Jackson Booth-Millard I read the description of this film, and it sounded like a worthwhile weepy kind of film, I was hoping it would be, and that the actress playing the part would do what was involved well, from debut directing actress Sarah Polley (Dawn of the Dead). Basically the Andersons, Grant (Gordon Pinsent) and Fiona (Golden Globe winning, and Oscar and BAFTA nominated Julie Christie) have been married for forty-four years, and they have been generally happy and loving even with Grant's working as a college professor. Then things change when Fiona develops many lapses of memory, she has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and is admitted into the long term care facility Meadowlake near their home in southern western Ontario. Grant visits very often, and feels sad that she does not know who he is anymore, but also he sees many other families affected by similar cases. He talks a lot to one of the women who also often visits the home, wife of one of the patients, Marian Barque (Moonstruck's Olympia Dukakis) who watches over her semi-comatose husband Aubrey (Michael Murphy). Aubrey and Fiona have struck up a friendship while in the home, but as time goes by Grant is sure that they are becoming much more than just friends, and the situation is worse with her not knowing their past. In the end, Grant and Marian agree that because their other halves can't communicated with them like they used to, they should continue seeing them and let them go on their new paths. Also starring Kristen Thomson as Kristy, Wendy Crewson as Madeleine Montpellier, Alberta Watson as Dr. Fischer and Deanna Dezmari as Veronica. Christie is of course fantastic at being the sympathetic patient unintentionally creating tragedy, but I agree that Pinsent is crucial as the husband who has to sit back and watch the events unfold, it is poignant, it is dignified and it is emotional, a most watchable relationship drama. It was nominated the Oscar for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published. Julie Christie was number 91 on The 100 Greatest Movie Stars, and she was number 24 on The 50 Greatest British Actresses. Very good!