Berlinale 2007: Sarah Polley about her film "Away from Her"

Admirably, Canadian actress Sarah Polley has always managed to maintain herself far away from the world of the big Hollywood "blockbusters" and has participated in movies of high artistic quality such as "The Sweet Hereafter" (Atom Egoyan, 1997) and the two Isabel-Coixet-films "My Life Without Me" (2003, in competition at the Berlin Film Festival) and "The Secret Life of Words" (2005). In the 2007 edition of the Berlinale, at the age of 28, she presented her first long feature film as a director, "Away from Her", the drama of Grant (Gordon Pinsent) and Fiona (Julie Christie), an old couple whose 44-year-relationship is under threat when Fiona is diagnosed as having the Alzheimer's disease...

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[JasFromNorway]

wich song from loreena is the intro?

[deuxfleuves]

It's "La Serenissima" from "The Book of Secrets".

[razzigirl]

sarah is the best actress ever, next to Juilet Lewis. I agree, she is underrated, but she did it to herself. She had many chances to go to Hollywood, but didn't want to. She a real talent, I wish she'd begin acting again.

[deuxfleuves]

That was a good decision (not to go to Hollywood). Therefore she has become more famous in Europe (and is not underrated there!)

[thornwellhead]

I remember her from the Ramona Quimby videos based on the books by Beverly Cleary.

[deuxfleuves]

Who are those?

[jun7per]

Sarah Polly is a gift to the film world. Her first directed film is a genuinely stunning as her deeply humble acting.

[munchkindelite]

I couldn't be more happy for her success in Away From Her. She's got such killer instinct, sensitivity, and intellect, and it's wonderful that she's finally getting noticed by the public. She's still very underexposed in America, but I appreciate the low profile that she keeps.

[sunclov]

GOD, Look at her cans!!!!! So freakin Hotty.

[sunclov]

shes so sexy.

[cbotten106]

I had never seen her before watching the final season of Slings & Arrows on DVD and within the great ensemble that show had Sarah really stood out as having star quality and great acting chops.

[cyburied]

The film is excellent. I'm not sure about saying this as I'm a man, but I think this movie and that one Sarah featured in and was directed by Coixet are a good example of not feminist but feminine movies, or how women ponder about certain situations.

[CTM1978]

That is poetry.

[007bondspy]

yes you too could join me but you would have to allow me first nibble on the soft bottomfruit! further more it is gods fault...he made me the disgusting pervert i am by making canadian women so attractive in the first place.

[itotallyforgot]

hahahahahahaha