News - Away from Her
Away From Her won seven prizes, including one for best picture, at the 28th annual Genie Awards at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The movie also earned Sarah Polley awards for director and adapted screenplay during ceremonies Monday night.
Hardly a Sunday goes by that an article in your "Living" section doesn't generate the urge to make some comments based on personal experience. "Love in the world of an Alzheimer's patient" (Dec. 16) presents a one-sided version of the subject and deserves criticism.
By Soren Andersen, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. May 25--"I never wanted to be away from her," the husband says of his wife after 44 years of marriage. But now she's going away from him. "I think," the wife says, "maybe I'm beginning to disappear." She is. Bit by bit.