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MARVIN’S ROOM (1996): Love and Care
It is the end of the U3A summer term for the U3A Old Women in Film Group. I had put aside, to consider later, Marvin’s Room (1996) Screenplay by Scott McPherson (1959-1992), based on his own play. With : Diane Keaton … Continue reading →
Posted in Ageing, care, critics, Film Analysis, grief
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Tagged actors, AIDS, aunt, beauty, black humour, bone marrow transplant, care, dependence, Diane Keaton, disablement, dying, empathy, family, feminism, food, Gwen Verdon, Hume Cronyn, humour, intergeneration, Leonardo Di Caprio, leukaemia, Meryl Streep, reviews, Robert de Niro, sisters, tv, TV soaps, women
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A WOMAN’S TALE : an overview
I have written about Paul Cox’s Innocence (2000) three years ago but I have wanted to consider this great director’s A Woman’s Tale ( 1991) for a very long time. In June this year Paul Cox died at the age … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ageing, carer, caring, death, dying, dying at home, friendship, loneliness, metaphors, mother, mother and son, old man, old woman, Paul Cox, social contacts, terminal cancer, war trauma
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