Falling in love with Julie Christie all over again...
Last weekend, the Washington Post featured a rave review of Julie Christie's new movie Away From Her. (Unlocked Memories, 5/11/07)
An excerpt from the review:
When did you fall in love with her?
Was it "Dr. Zhivago"? "Darling"? "Shampoo"?
On every continent, in every language, anywhere there was a dark room, a strip of celluloid and a light bulb, part of what it meant to go to the movies over the past 50 years has been to fall in love with Julie Christie. She's the female corollary to what they always said about James Bond (or was it Steve McQueen?): Men want to be with her, women want to be her.
And it still holds true, as Christie proves in the exquisite, closely observed "Away From Her," a quietly shattering portrait of a marriage in which she delivers yet another incandescent star turn. As a woman in the early throes of Alzheimer's, Christie proves yet again that she's an actress not just of supreme physical beauty but finely tuned sensitivity.
The article is so right in regards to all of us always being in love with her. I was and after seeing her in Away From Her, my love was reawakened. She was luminescent and brilliant.
The film also speaks to why I wrote When The Man You Love is Ill. Away From Her beautifully embraces the issues of Alzheimer's, sadly the most progressive disease of the future for my generation.
Rarely has love at any age been depicted so honestly on screen...
Away From Her shows how both partners are affected when one becomes ill and really drives home some of the concepts in my book.
But the radiant, vital heart of "Away From Her" is Christie, who at 66 proves she is still one of cinema's most spectacular screen objects.
A true Sage indeed.
i read that if you read more, play chess, etc. you're less likely to get the disease. interesting thought since in the movie she is constantly being read to. connection? intentional? what do you think?
http://www.thenewsroom.com/details/456446?c_id=wom-bc-mam
--matthew from the health desk at thenewsroom.com
Posted by: matthew | June 30, 2007 at 10:29 PM