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Familiar Touch

2024 1h 31m Drama List
100% Tomatometer 12 Reviews Popcornmeter 0 Ratings
Familiar Touch is a coming-of-old age film. It follows an octogenarian woman’s transition to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship to herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.

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Guy Lodge Variety Friedland’s film, as sharp as it is soft, conveys both the terror of losing the life you recognize, and the intermittent, fragmented joy of finding it again. Sep 9, 2024 Full Review Hannah Strong Little White Lies There is great emotional heft to a relatively simple film, and a dignity and empathy afforded to dementia patients that feels astonishingly rare on-screen, where sensationalism tends to bring the house down. Sep 9, 2024 Full Review Alison Willmore New York Magazine/Vulture Familiar Touch can be sad, without question, but it’s also salty and boundlessly tender. Sep 5, 2024 Full Review Connor Lightbody Next Best Picture While it is perhaps too quiet an affair...this is a film that impresses and emotionally moves often. It may declare itself with a whisper but has announced the promising Friedland as a director with a roar Rated: 7/10 Sep 12, 2024 Full Review Sarah Manvel In Their Own League It stands and falls wholly on [Kathleen Chalfant's] performance, which is one of great courage, and is strong enough the flaws of the movie around it are very easily forgiven. Sep 9, 2024 Full Review Rory O'Connor The Film Stage It’s a wonderfully gentle piece of filmmaking––something of a low-key triumph that offers a novel perspective on a topic that had become, if not entirely worn out, at least clichéd. Rated: B+ Sep 4, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Synopsis Familiar Touch is a coming-of-old age film. It follows an octogenarian woman’s transition to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship to herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.
Director
Sarah Friedland
Producer
Alexandra Byer, Matthew Thurm, Sarah Friedland
Screenwriter
Sarah Friedland
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 31m