AWAY FROM HER
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Away From Her is a screen adaptation of Alice Munro’s short story, The Bear Came Over the Mountain. Married for 50 years, Grant and Fiona’s life together is full of tenderness and humour, their serenity broken only by Fiona’s references to the past and her increasingly evident memory loss. When Grant moves Fiona into a nursing home specializing in Alzheimer’s disease, he is not allowed to visit for the first month so she can “adjust”. When he sees her again, she has forgotten him and turned her affection to Aubrey, another resident. Heartbroken, Grant visits daily, bearing witness to the growing bond between Fiona and Aubrey. When Aubrey’s wife, Marian, takes Aubrey home, Fiona becomes deeply depressed, and Grant embarks on his greatest act of self-sacrifice.
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Sarah Polley
Director
Actress Sarah Polley has been writing and directing in Canada for the last six years. In 1999, Polley directed the short film The Best Day of My Life, and then wrote, directed and produced Don’t Think Twice, starring Tom McCamus and Jennifer Podemski. In 2001, she wrote and directed I Shout Love, starring Kristen Thomson, who won a 2003 ACTRA award for her performance in the short. The film also won a 2003 Genie award for best live action short drama. In 2002, Polley wrote and directed The Harp, one of the episodes of the television series, The Shield Stories. Away from Her is Polley’s first feature film.
35 mm
95 minutes
Colour
Aspect ratio
1.85
Original version in English |
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Producers
Jennifer Weiss
Simone Urdl
Daniel Iron
Coproducer
Victoria Hirst
Director and Scriptwriter
Sarah Polley
Director of Photography
Luc Montpellier
Editor
David Wharnsby
Sound Design
Jane Tattersall
Cast
Julie Christie
Gordon Pinsent
Olympia Dukakis
Kristen Thompson
Michael Murphy
Wendy Crewson
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Production
The Film Farm
80 Niagara St.
Toronto, Ontario
M5V 1C5
(416) 703-7317
(416) 504-7161
jennifer@thefilmfarm.ca
Foundry Films Inc.
225 Richmond St. W.
Suite 403
Toronto, Ontario
M5V 1W2
(416) 260-3030
(416) 977-8549
info@foundryfilms.ca
Distribution – Canada
Capri Releasing
259 Lakeshore Blvd. E.
2nd Floor
Toronto, Ontario
M5A 3T7
(416) 535-1870
(416) 535-3414
info@caprifilms.com
www.caprifilms.com
International distribution
Hanway Films
24 Hanway St.
London,
W1T 1UH
44 20 7290 0750
44 20 7290 0751
ts@hanwayfilms.com
www.hanwayfilms.com
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