She is the driving force in this movie and it is good for our older crowds.

Whilst I think some people who have experience of dealing with people with Alzheimer's are clearly letting that cloud their judgment of the film, it is a film after all so you have to allow for artistic licence. None of which diminished what was a very moving account of a couple going into this stage of their relationship. I just found the whole situation very believable and some of the imagery stunning. For me it was a very subtly acted film that dealt extraordinarily well with its subject. I don't feel I need to have experience of Alzheimer's to know that this film speaks from the heart. I thought Polley cast the film well and told a very adult story at a very young age well and with maturity beyond her years.

Sarah Polley's directorial debut is an impressive one. Mostly, she was successful in picking great actors. Grant Anderson (Gordon Pinsent) is suffering as his wife Fiona (Julie Christie) slowly loses her memories. She has Alzheimer's disease and gets placed in a long term care facility.The whole movie takes place on the face of Gordon Pinsent. His pain is evident every time she can't remember him. It is truly heartbreaking. Julie Christie delivers one of her greatest performances. She doesn't overact. The confusion isn't theatrical which could so easily taken as comical. It is a quiet suffering on the scraggly old face of Pinsent. The one out of step moment is the passing old man who comments that Grant's heart is breaking into a thousand pieces. It's too obvious and too on the nose.There is something about veteran actors taking all their life experiences and putting it on the screen. It's something that can't be faked. And it can't be done with younger actors. We saw a man breaking right in front of us on the screen.

I've got this obsession about Alzheimer's disease since years, and still. Getting to imagine how Gordon Pinsent shouted "yesss" to her, and living up with this miserable hugely depressing disease. Specially feeling for Julie Christie gave me the impression so clearly and the feelings were so intense to be hard to feel. Yet the concept of "making a decision to be happy" is too real, but too betraying as well. It's more than excellent movie ..Happiness is what you choose to remember, Julie Christie's spectacular performance is just unbearable ..But and a big but here, from a medical point of view, the script was lacking some important points through the process of Alzheimer's disease, missing those points reflected a different image for the disease to the public, and didn't show the real suffering of anyone that had to deal with that kind of disease ..That's all :)