Away from Her

Away from Her

  • Director: Sarah Polley
  • Writer: Sarah Polley,Alice Munro
  • Countries of origin: Canada, United Kingdom, United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: May 25, 2007
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Далеко від неї
  • "AWay From Her" is a romantic film directed by Sarah Polley and starring Gordon Pinsent and Julie Christie . It was released in Canada on September 11, 2006.
    The film tells the story of a couple who have lived together for 44 years. Because of the unfortunate wife suffering from Alzheimer's disease, their marriage has encountered an unprecedented test   .

    Details

    • Release date May 25, 2007
    • Filming locations Freeport Health Centre, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
    • Production companies Foundry Films, Capri Releasing, HanWay Films

    Box office

    Budget

    CA$4,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $4,571,521

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $114,628

    Gross worldwide

    $9,194,283

    Movie reviews

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    • By Allen 2022-12-28 19:34:32

      How many Linyu dust-free nights are fresh in the dream

      For a long time, I have been wandering around in the daily life of removing the constant word, and I have returned to the most familiar and unfamiliar place, and the place where my dream has ended. I remind myself again and again not to be confused by the past. I am afraid that I will Wrestling in the same place. Yes, tonight, when my thoughts are full of floods and beasts are at stake, I want to vent my cultural literacy here. When I watched "Benming Year" starring Jiang Wen, this year is...

    • By Sam 2022-12-28 12:57:56

      The name is flipped oddly.

      Saw this movie, it was very good. Female subject matter, female director, very simple expression, the story is also very simple, but the plot twists. In the last years of mutual dependence, in the face of cruel illness, the old couple had to give up being together, give up for love, and work hard for love, which is very touching. It can be said that only women are willing to believe that there is such an ending.
         The open ending has a lot of space. The male protagonist is struggling in...

    • By Jamel 2022-12-26 15:24:42

      When I forget you, please don't forget me

      Although I have never met an Alzheimer's patient after the onset of the disease,

      it is scary to imagine the feeling of fear and helplessness

      when my body is getting old and I can't even remember what I am. You can imagine Mr. Ever wondered if your wife was pretending to be sick? Because I once betrayed her but the last scene is when my wife said to my husband: please don't abandon me She is sick but looks like she is pretending to be sick but what she wants to say most in...

    • By Martina 2022-12-25 17:36:51

      "The Willows": Julie Christie is the only one who is excellent?

      "The Willows" is another movie about Alzheimer's disease (also known as Alzheimer's disease). Generally, movies use this kind of degenerative disease that can impair memory, thinking and action as the theme, and they are generally used to develop into two types of movies. One is two lovers who are in love, one of them is ill and gradually forgets the other, how can the two sides fight the disease with unswerving and earth-shattering love, such as the Korean film "Eraser in the Head". The other...

    • By Garfield 2022-12-24 09:32:19

      "The Willows and Flowers" classic lines

      The worst habit of human beings is to be deceived by habit. It is only after crossing the rice field that I realize that I can put aside all my experience and meet the water lily willows that I also yearn for. I just saw my heart blossoming, leaning against the window, the breeze blowing on my face, I lost it, and it gave me a slap in the face, made me cry quickly, and the light road was long. I look up to the other side more bravely. Walk through the rough road. Willows and dark flowers are...

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    • By Samson 2023-08-23 06:40:05

      The heroine's graceful temperament convinced me, I wish I could go white...

    • By Lucas 2023-08-19 15:38:13

      It's not suitable for watching this kind of thing, because it will cry a lot. I love the ending song very...

    • By Sophia 2023-08-11 01:41:37

      Will love stay when the memory fades...

    • By Aditya 2023-07-28 08:06:14

      Too literary to...

    • By Guy 2023-07-23 03:33:08

      Alzheimer's steals love, no, steals...

    Movie plot

    Retired teacher Grant and his wife Fiona have been together for 44 years, and the two have lived a peaceful and comfortable life. However, the elegant and noble Fiona suffers from Alzheimer's disease and decides to stay in a nursing home. Grant, who loves his wife, has to compromise. The two, who have never been apart, need to not see each other for a month after Fiona is hospitalized. Grant was overwhelmed by the sudden change when he...
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    About photography

    The film's cinematographer, Luke Montpellier, would change his shooting style as the scene changed, releasing the appropriate composure during the interior scenes of Grant and Fiona at home, like a series of stills The photos of the series are running, but while the crew is shooting on the ranch, Luke opts for a Steadicam, which has a special stabilization effect on the frame and conveys the male lead's unease very well. In order to...
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    Evaluation action

    The theme of "AWay From Her" is thought-provoking, the tone is calm and restrained, and the true meaning of love is deduced in a slow rhythm. The female director Sarah Polly uses a calm tone to outline a touching picture of life. Under the director's gentle, slender and innovative expression, the film is endowed with an intellectual temperament that is lacking in the original work. The heroine Julie Christie's performance is deep and...
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    Movie quotes

    • Kristy: And, how old were you when you met?

      Grant Anderson: She was 18.

      Kristy: Holy! That's pretty young to get married, eh?

      Grant Anderson: Wasn't my idea.

      Kristy: You mean she proposed to you? Well, that's lovely, that's what I think. How'd she do it?

      Grant Anderson: She hadn't planned it necessarily. We were in Tobermory, waiting for the ferry to Manitoulin, and it was miserable and rainy, and she was in a good mood. And, she didn't want any part of my sour mood.

      Kristy: What'd she do, what'd she say?

      Grant Anderson: Well, she said: "Do you think it'd be fun... Do you think it'd be fun if we got married?"

      Kristy: And what did you say?

      Grant Anderson: I took her up on it. I shouted yes.

      [pause]

      Grant Anderson: I never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.

    • Grant Anderson: [reading to Fiona from, "Letters From Iceland" by; W.H. Auden] Isn't it true however far we've wandered into our provinces of persecution, where our regrets accuse, we keep returning back to the common faith from which we've all dissented, back to the hands, the feet, the faces? Children are always there and take the hands, even when they are most terrified. Those in love cannot make up their minds to go or stay. Artist and doctor return most often. Only the mad will never, never come back. For doctors keep on worrying while away, in case their skill is suffering or deserted. Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they want belief again in their own size. And the artist prays ever so gently, let me find pure all that can happen. Only uniqueness is success. For instance let me perceive the images of history. All that I push away with doubt and travel, today's and yesterdays alike, like bodies.

    • [Grant is talking with Fiona about her desire to move into the Meadowlake nursing home]

      Grant Anderson: You're sure?

      Fiona: I'm sure.

      Grant Anderson: You don't want to just get a sense of the place? I don't want to make this decision alone.

      Fiona: [turns and stares blankly at Grant] What place?

      [Grant stares back at Fiona, aghast]

      Fiona: Just kidding.

      [giggles]

      Grant Anderson: [grinning] Fuck off.

      Fiona: [smiling, then pensive] You're not making this decision alone, Grant. I've already made up my mind.

      Grant Anderson: Okay.