In a moment of silence, he casually hands her the frying pan he has just cleaned. The title track introduces this quality and Xiu Xiu's impressive ability to create a relentless and chaotic rendition. The complex illusion compresses the distant image, thricely distorting and inverting reality into a semblance of digital static. With this album, Spielbergs have shown that sometimes good things do come to those that wait. I never got the feeling that Grant understood Fiona.
Quiet verses of a narrator meekly asking permission from a domineering father figure give way to a blistering refrain where she casts off her shackles. It's one thing to consider options from the comfortable distance of six decades; another thing entirely to make choices while living under totalitarian rule and in fear of one's life. Grant's own erstwhile romance with Fiona was, he sees, tangled in his own sensibility and projection. Although the films humour is not very substantial, I think it represents the idea that life goes on. Subtle, ensnaring musicality and wearing her heart so clearly on her sleeve just as easily convey it to an audience.
To add insult to injury when Grant finally arrives after his month's probationary period to visit, he finds Fiona has begun to slip further away and has struck a new friendship with another patient, the mute Aubrey veteran character actor Murphy who communicates amazingly with subtle eye and facial movements to convey his sadness who she claims to have known in the past. Also, most dialogue scenes are shot unobtrusively, with the camera behaing more like a passive observer than a guide. It also shows the reality of life in a long-term care facility. Henson is a versatile actor often cast as a snappy, hard-shelled professional, and here she gets to push against type a little. Raimi planned to use a series of lower-profile villains such as Rhino, Shocker and Mysterio the latter to be played by Raimi's friend Bruce Campbell in small appearances, with the Vulture, played by John Malkovich, and the Black Cat, played by Anne Hathaway, as the major villains. These everyday objects are associated with a warm and comforting sense of childhood for Krug, but it's a nostalgia that intersects in troubled fashion with an awareness of the hidden guilt which now permeates her sense of home and belonging. At the time, I didn't know a soul in town and was already itching to begin writing and recording another album.
Why did her grandfather join the party? These comparisons reveal his aptitude on the keyboard, as the piano was Ellis' first instrument. The mystery of his father's research, where it was going, why he was killed, and the relationship to Connors or Oscorp all seem irrelevant to Peter's story. All these attributes have elevated the band into an art rock dimension, highlighted further by avantgarde notions and an intriguing sense of improvisation. The Frond kick butt on their new album with 90 minutes worth of solid songwriting and playing. Where some contemporary comics drop tantalizingly big ideas but fail to follow through with sufficient thoroughness to do their subjects merit, Krug's work lies at the opposite end of the spectrum. The narrator lets the parent off with a pass, but the unstated pain is clear. Given all that, three stars might seem like a slap in the face.
Maybe I should read it again when I get married or something. I think the film shows Grant discovering himself after being married to somebody for so long, realizing what unconditional love meant at the end of their marriage. While the film is powerfully acted and directed it is surprisingly not a melancholic syrupy hazy account nor is it a sugar-coated valentine to love's healing powers. The paint cans each wear a controlling statement that has been imposed on me, though I believe them each to be relatable across the female experience. Eventually I realized that I had actually come to know all the wacky characters I'd imagined making that video with, and I reached out to my friend Eric Smith to help me film it. Polley with her camera takes the material, finds an uncanny balance in her casting, and bathes the film in the mercy of simple truth. Ask any family member who has had to place a loved one suffering from Dementia into a nursing home and the task is not remotely easy.
As the track progresses, the lyrics transform to further develop the narrator's character. Over rippling acoustic guitar, she details that feeling of finding you've become untethered from societies' secure moorings, struggling to connect with the wider world as the tide conspires to take you further out to sea. As he waits, he plays a game on his phone. Grant wasn't the most faithful of husbands, and Munro makes a point showing the way Grant's mind worked every time he had an affair with one of his students. Soon, it will have sold out what may be its final print-run. The cacophony in the track's final moments suggests advancement is not always smooth. When Fiona is admitted into Meadowlake, she asks Grant to make love to her and then to leave.
Away from Her (2007) …review and/or viewer comments • Christian Spotlight on the Movies • georgiajudges.org
Julie Christie is wonderful, and Gordon Pinsent matches her. Sadly, this means that the unnecessary father backstory would continue into the next film. Less of a short story, more like revelations or a diary or something. All he can do is watch, if his intentions are to be sensitive. Regardless, in January 2010, with the film not progressing creatively and Sony Pictures sticking to the May 2011 release date, Raimi walked away from Spider-Man, claiming he could not create a high-quality film and meet the deadline. This film deals with a couple married for 45 years, and have never been away from each other. She recognizes, in a critical sort of way, the difficult terrain they had to navigate, and the challenges of making ethical decisions under such terrain; decisions which they might not even have been recognized as ethical ones at the time.
I saw this film at Sundance, and was literally blown away. Especially empowering are her non-lexical vocables serving as onomatopoeic references to the previously heard piano. Eventually I realized that I had actually come to know all the wacky characters I'd imagined making that video with, and I reached out to my friend Eric Smith to help me film it. Recounting the stories of Karlsruhe's Jews, trucked off to their fates while neighbours and friends did nothing, generates the necessary sense of outrage: yes, this matters. His wife Marian the incomparable Dukakis tries to do the best she can with her spouse but accepts the limitations involved and strikes up a friendship with Grant as well. Still, he has them and they flood toward him seemingly unbidden, rendered in home-movieish close-ups of Fiona's very youthful face, when she was his student and bride to be, or in moments of their late-life closeness, making dinner or cross-country skiing near their home, tucked away in snowy northern Ontario.
Her sense of fun and joy is clear from the sparkle in her eyes—when that sparkle starts to dim the audience like Grant mourns its loss. There are also two sex scenes in the movie that were not in the short story. It shows that all human strive for that connection with people, and he had lost that with his wife due to her disease. Fiona used humour subtly after learning of her condition. The characters feel like cardboard creatures there to make a point.
