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Familiar Touch
2024
Synopsis
Ruth, an older woman with dementia, leaves her home for a date. But what she thinks is a hotel turns out to be an assisted living facility, and she must contend with an array of new faces, routines, and surroundings.
Editorial
Confidently quiet, Sarah Friedland’s narrative debut is playful but direct in exploring the islanding effects of dementia. Lingering on life’s gladdening details—lily pollen on a varnished tabletop, the tracery of veins on cabbage leaves—serene camerawork finds silver linings in a shrinking world.
