DVD REVIEW:  ‘Away From Her’

As I was putting the DVD of Away from Her back in its case, I noticed this line on the cover:  Sometimes you have to let go of something you can’t live without.  Of all the vague, cheesy and misleading taglines on most movie posters today…I couldn’t have chosen something more apt for this film.  The next best thing would have been:  If you loved that weeper ‘The Notebook’, this movie will rip your heart out.

Away is the feature-length directorial debut from actress Sarah Polley, who’s probably best known by younger audiences as Ronna from Go.  She is also credited with adapting the screenplay from a short story by Alice Munro (‘The Bear Came Over the Mountain’).  Atom Egoyan, Polley’s director in her breakthrough film The Sweet Hereafter, served as the movie’s executive producer.

The film stars the beautiful Julie Christie (Fiona) and Gordon Pinsent (Grant) as a couple still madly in love after 45 years of marriage.  Their peaceful existence in their cozy cabin is eventually interrupted by a series of signs.  Signs they tried to do their best to ignore.  Unfortunately, it comes to a point where Fiona’s memory lapses prove too worrisome to simply brush off.

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This Week on DVD:  September 11, 2007

Here are a few of the new titles you can find on the rental shelves this Tuesday:

• Away From Her:  starring Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent & Olympia Dukakis
• Even Money:  starring Kim Basinger, Ray Liotta & Forest Whitaker
• Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee:  starring Adam Beach, Aidan Quinn & August Schellenberg
• Face/Off (Special Collector’s Edition):  starring John Travolta, Nicolas Cage & Joan Allen
• The Graduate (40th Anniversary Collector’s Edition):  starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft & Katharine Ross

NOTE:  Click here to see the TV-On-DVD options for this week.