'Familiar Touch' Review: Kathleen Chalfant Illuminates a Pensive Portrait of a Woman Battling Dementia
Aging is supposed to be a privilege, but that idea glazes over the hardships attached to the mid-winter of one's life. The unfavorable intervention of others, trying to reconcile a weakening body with an ever-youthful spirit — these truths feel more like unfair repercussions than gifts of a life well-lived. When is aging a privilege, and when is it agony? Writer-director Sarah Friedland's debut feature — and Venice Film Festival 2024 winner — Familiar Touch explores this question, sensitively depicting the unfamiliarity and surprising beauty of an elderly woman's journey into a memory care unit in an assisted living facility.
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