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 Watch an interview with MEMORY FOR MAX, CLAIRE, IDA AND COMPANY director Allan King, conducted on December 13, 2005.
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SYNOPSIS: One of Canada’s most distinguished documentary filmmakers returns with an extraordinary investigation of the human condition. Often emotionally devastating and sometimes oddly humorous, MEMORY FOR MAX, CLAIRE, IDA AND COMPANY follows residents of the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care in Toronto as they struggle with loneliness, neglect, and their failing memories. Eschewing narration and conventional interviews, as in his seminal works WARRENDALE, A MARRIED COUPLE, and DYING AT GRACE (Canada’s Top Ten 2002), King tears apart our preconceptions about aging and Alzheimer’s disease. The subjects of his documentary may experience memory loss – a fact which King records in heartbreaking and frightening detail – but that doesn’t mean they don’t possess desire, ambition or will. What emerges is a powerfully moving and complex portrait of aging, one filled with love, anger, flirtation, humour, ennui, and happiness.
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Director: Allan King
Country: Canada
Year: 2005
Language: English
Time: 112 minutes
Film Types: Digital Betacam
Production Company: Allan King Associates Ltd.
Producer: Allan King
Cinematography: Peter Walker
Editor: Nick Hector
Production Designer:
Sound: Jason Milligan, Michael Bonini
Music: Robert Carli
Principal Cast: Claire Mandell, Max Trachter, Ida Orliffe, Fay Silverman, Rachel Baker, Helen Mosten-Grove
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 Sunday, January 29, 2005 3:00 PM |
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| Atlantic Film Festival; Toronto International Film Festival; Vancouver International Film Festival. |
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“Allan King attire le regard des spectateurs, pris individuellement, là où la société détourne le sien, collectivement. Dans l'enceinte d'une maison de retraite torontoise, le cinéaste expose sans faux-fuyant, avec toutefois respect et dignité, une poignée de femmes qui attendent la mort en luttant contre la solitude et l'oubli.”
English translation: “Allan King brings us to contemplate, individually, what we, as a society, dare not watch. Behind the closed doors of a Toronto nursing home for the elderly, his camera reveals head-on, but with dignity and respect, a group of men and women who, as they wait, fight with solitude and memory loss.”
- Martin Bilodeau
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 Allan King was born in Vancouver. He was a pioneer of the cinéma-véri-té documentary style, developing the genre of "actuality dramas" with such widely acclaimed films as WARRENDALE (67), A MARRIED COUPLE (69), WHO'S IN CHARGE? (83), THE DRAGON'S EGG (99) and DYING AT GRACE (03). He has also directed many films for television and dramatic features including WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND (77) and TERMINI STATION (89). He was the subject of the 2002 Festival's Canadian Retrospective, which featured selections from his five decades of filmmaking. MEMORY FOR MAX, CLAIRE, IDA AND COMPANY (05) is his most recent film. |
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| Special thanks to Allan King Associates Ltd. |
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