Sarah Friedland's "On Low Heat": The Thousand Faces of Ruth
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Winner of three awards at the last Venice Film Festival, this first film by American Sarah Friedland takes us into the mental world of an octogenarian suffering from dementia and paints a poignant and subtle portrait of a woman with a diffracted memory.
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I subscribeFilms about Alzheimer's disease often evoke "the before," when the person suffering from it's consciousness is still present. From the diagnosis, and often the denial, to the progressive loss of cognitive abilities and the dismay felt in the face of it. None of this is the case with Sarah Friedland, who captures Ruth, her heroine, precisely at the moment when she has shifted into another reality and no longer recognizes her son, Steve, who has come to pick her up and take her to a nursing home.
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