Posted on 04/05/07
Sarah Polley makes an assured directing debut
Away from HerDirected and written by Sarah Polley Starring Gordon Pinsent and Julie ChristieClassification: PG***½ Alice Munro's short story The Bear Came Over the Mountain, which was published in The New Yorker in 1999, is about a retired college professor who loses his wife, twice, first to Alzheimer's, then to another man in her nursing home. The story takes its title from a children's song with nonsense lyrics and a tune that dates back to the Crusades. The oblivious bear, who can only see what's in front of him, serves as a mordant metaphor for the implacable march of Alzheimer's disease.
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