Column: Coping with dementia

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The latest of the many films dealing with the subject of dementia has come to Boston. Some of us have seen “Away From Her,” drawn from Alice Munro’s short story, “The Bear Came Over the Mountain.”

Canadian actress Sarah Polley made her debut as a director in this portrait of a woman, Fiona (Julie Christie) who is slowly “losing it” and her patient, perplexed husband Grant (Gordon Pinsent). Ty Burr, writing in the Boston Globe on May 18, called the film, “tragic but not depressing, because Polley is curious to know what happens to love when memory is gone.” And of course, we find out.

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