19 Mar 2008
Director: Sarah Polley
Canada
2006
100 min
This is a screen adaptation of celebrated writer Alice Munro’s short story ‘The Bear Came over the Mountain’. It is the beautiful and bittersweet tale “of married couple, Grant and Fiona. Their daily lives, in their twilight years, are filled with tenderness and humour. Their tranquility is broken by Fiona’s failing memory. Soon her behaviour has become so difficult that Grant must inevitably face the truth that she must be sent to a nursing home. The enforced separation, the first time in 40 years, is the heart-rending catalyst that will transform them from lovers into strangers.