dementia
Falling : Viggo Mortensen’s finely nuanced directing/writing debut
Watching a third movie that deals with dementia in as many weeks is kind of a tough call (especially for a critic edging on in years). First Sir Anthony Hopkins played a cantankerous old man who never let up on his sainted daughter Olivia Colman in The Father. Then competing with them for Best…
The Father : with an award-winning performance from Anthony Hopkins
It seems that Europeans have the edge when it comes to telling such elegant tales on the sensitive subject of dementia. Hard to forget the image of Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva as the devoted elderly couple in Micheal Hanke’s Amour in 2012. They stole all our hearts and won every award imaginable in…
