Sarah Polley, the talented actress from Go, My Life Without Me and Don’t Come Knocking screened her writing-directing debut Away From Her in Toronto. The film is an adaption of the Alice Munro short story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain.”
Hollywood Reporter had this to say,
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Polley is attentive to her cast without cueing us to marvel at their skill. Similarly, she crafts tender scenes — the couple dancing to Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon,” for instance — that are bittersweet without even leaning toward the maudlin.
The bottom line from Hollywood Reporter: Sarah Polley’s directing debut is an assured, moving look at coping with Alzheimer’s.
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