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OLD AGE AND CARE : Amour, Chronic, A Woman’s Tale
Autoethnography Isolated from family and friends under tier 4, unable to research with any enthusiasm I have decided to end the writing of 2020.But first I must come back to my blog of December 19th, where I touched on an … Continue reading
NEW PATH : DEMENTIA IN FILMS….
In my plan to write about and study films about dementias I realise that the research involved is too complex and beyond my available time and interest. I know nothing about horror films and it seems to me that it … Continue reading
Posted in Ageing, ageing couple, alzheimer, carers, family, Film Analysis
Tagged dementia
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AWAY FROM HER (2008) and Still Alice (2014)
Of all couple separations the separation due to dementia can be the most painful. Major illnesses in a partner, a child are also difficult to live through. It is the erasing of the partner and his/her annihilation that is unbearably … Continue reading
Posted in Ageing, ageing couple, alzeihmer, alzheimer, care, care homes, Film Analysis, film noir, grief, horror films, old couple separation, three generations of women
Tagged care home, dementia
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QUARTET (2012)
It was a pleasure to meet again with EON members (Ealing Over 60 Network) to watch a film together. I chose Quartet (2012) for this session. There were 21 people. As usual male presence was of 3 only. Personally I … Continue reading
Posted in Ageing, alzheimer, audience responses, care homes, critics, FILM RECEPTION, love
Tagged Alzheimer's, Billi Connoly, friendship, Michael Gambon, music, musicians, Pauline Collins, stage fright, Tom Courtenay
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POETRY (2010) -2-
Recently, a friend recommended Lucy Bolton’s chapter The Intertextual Stardom of Iris: Winslet, Dench, Murdoch, and Alzheimer’s Disease,Feminisms: Diversity, Difference and Multiplicity in Contemporary Film Cultures (2015). This took me years back before I started my blog. Coming back to … Continue reading
Posted in Ageing, Ageism, alzheimer, care, critics, death, family
Tagged 66 year old woman, Azheimer, carer/cleaner, corruption, gangrape, poetry, policeman, rape, suicide, teenagers
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POETRY (2010)
POETRY (2010) How did I miss this great film featuring a 66 years old grandmother? Directed by Lee Chang-dong, it won the 2010 Cannes Best Screenplay Award and many more. I discovered it recently while searching for films that have … Continue reading