Familiar Touch

Aging is so scary, thankfully it will never happen to me

Brett Arnold

beautiful. my grandfather had dementia and this was one of the most humanist and real things i’ve ever seen to tackle it. wept healing tears from start to finish. gorgeous and stunning performance from Kathleen Chalfant. crave and am in awe of this kind of cinema

Vera Drew

Special in so many ways, but for me, it’s her ability to place you within each moment through hyper-specific textures on screen and the sounds they emit. It’s one of the more stunning portrayals of memory loss I’ve ever seen. Kathleen Chalfant is remarkable. The heavy…

Brandon Streussnig

A really delicate, lovely film. In its attempts to capture the fading memory of its protagonist the movie itself emphasizes the tactile and auditory, but never in a flashy or showy way. No flashbacks or audacious camera setups, just a drift of sounds from the past wafting…

Joshua Dysart

Touching

phil

Made me cry..

Anurag Kashyap

“mortal… and… demigod. how will we get along?” reading through people’s reviews made me realise how lucky i am to have had grandparents (and other family members) who never succumbed to Alzheimer's or dementia; for context: my maternal grandparents both have since passed…

Jackie

As a hospice nurse who has worked in many memory care facilities, I avoid watching any type of film about healthcare. This movie was weirdly accurate in not only facility life, but also the progression of the disease. It explored (so accurately) the impact of the disease on…

ballerboosta

Shot in the Villa Gardens retirement community in Pasadena and featuring many of its real residents, Sarah Friedland's feature debut tackles the fragile journey of an aged woman entering the critical stages of dementia, entering a new reality that she constantly tries to…

Manoj Panicker