The first feature film from actress-turned-director Sarah Polley is a mature and graceful story about the long, imperfect marriage of Fiona and Grant (Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent) that's being broken apart by Alzheimer's. When he makes the tough decision to put her in an assisted living facility, she takes an interest (whether confused or not) in another man (Michael Murphy). Based on a short story by Alice Munro, Away from Her is "sharp and somber, alive to the lacerations of ordinary experience and quietly attentive to grand absurdities and small instances of grace" (A.O. Scott, New York Times). With Olympia Dukakis.                                   Sarah Polley---Canada---2006---110 mins.