Away from Her

Sarah Polley, a terrific actress, now serves notice that she is a director to watch.

Beautifully written, from an Alice Munro short story, this movie directed by an actress rarely missteps, even when it bravely includes the dark humor inherent in this situation.

Superb, from its subtle atmospheres to its fine performances. Julie Christie is exquisite as ever purveying the spirit of a woman whose radiance remains even as it dims like the glow of sunset on a snowbound lake.

Away From Her got to me in a way no other movie has this year, eliciting copious tears.

As this intimate, beautifully observed film unfolds, you realize that the story's themes are relevant no matter what age you happen to be.

Sarah Polley's sad, wise and simply dazzling directorial effort beams with warmth.

No one dreams of the twilight transpiring in "Away From Her," but, in its words, it's not bad luck. It's just life. You can't beat life. A tenderly told tragedy about Alzheimer's Disease's erosive effects, Sarah Polley's film avoids movie-of-the-week sap.

Too content with its own "maturity" and "restraint," yet it invaluably offers Christie for audiences in delicate contemplation, and chaste consummation

Christie is brilliant as steely but brittle Fiona, a woman who knows her mind completely and yet, in the end, cannot hang on to it, while Pinsent eloquently portrays the gradual ebbing away of a partnership, as delicate and unstoppable as snow-melt.

Una bella historia de amor a merced de una enfermedad, filmada con delicadeza por Sarah Polley y sensiblemente interpretada por Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent y Olympia Dukakis.

A beautifully acted, poignant film about a man who slowly loses his wife to Alzheimer's.

A complex series of relationships revolve around a nursing home romance.