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    Sarah Friedland’s Venice Hit ‘Acquainted Contact’ Captures Relationship with Dementia in Unprecedented Aged Coming-of-Age Drama — Watch Trailer

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    Sarah Friedland’s Venice Hit ‘Acquainted Contact’ Captures Relationship with Dementia in Unprecedented Aged Coming-of-Age Drama — Watch Trailer
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    “Acquainted Contact” captures the loneliness of forgetting coupled with the enjoyment of rediscovering what it means to really feel alive. The drama, which is written and directed by Sarah Friedland, grew to become a crucial hit after it premiered on the 2024 Venice Movie Competition the place it was later acquired by Music Field Movies.

    “Acquainted Contact” stars Tony Award nominee Kathleen Chalfant as Ruth Goldman, an older lady with dementia who realizes that her “resort” is definitely an assisted residing facility. After all, this realization occurs as soon as she is about to go on a date.

    The official synopsis reads: “Whereas Ruth resists figuring out together with her getting old neighbors, she connects with the care staff there (Carolyn Michelle and Andy McQueen) and is drawn in the direction of her son (H. Jon Benjamin), whom she errors for a suitor. A former cook dinner, Ruth finds company getting ready meals within the facility kitchen. She slides into youthful selves as she embraces the sensory experiences of the group’s actions and day by day life. However when the fact of her state of affairs sinks in, Ruth feels betrayed and flees the ability in the hunt for one thing acquainted.”

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    Friedland beforehand was employed as a reminiscence care employee and nonetheless teaches artwork to older adults. “Acquainted Contact” is being praised as an genuine ode to the transformations of residing with impaired reminiscence. The IndieWire overview deemed the movie to be an “achingly intimate drama” that prospers by “staying so firmly in Ruth’s perspective and her altering world.” IndieWire’s Kate Erbland applauded lead star Chalfant for being “splendidly emotive” onscreen.

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    Friedland instructed IndieWire that “Acquainted Contact” is supposed to problem the belief that individuals residing with dementia are not “current” in a cognitive since. “Having labored with older adults, I’ve come to consider identification not simply being expressed by means of our cognition and thru our language, however about self-expression and identification additionally [as] one thing embodied and bodily,” Friedland mentioned. “Folks take into consideration getting old areas as areas of demise and decline, and sure, individuals are residing out the final years of their lives, however there’s a lot pleasure and creativity and consciousness.”

    Music Field Movies will launch “Acquainted Contact” June 20 at Movie Discussion board in New York and June 27 in Los Angeles, and will likely be increasing nationally in choose markets. Try the trailer beneath.



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