Lost for Words (TV Movie 1999)

Lost for Words (TV Movie 1999). 1h 16m

“This bittersweet exploration of what familial love is, and the pain there is for all concerned in losing someone to this most alienating of diseases (alzheimers) proves something exceptional in that it shows Dame Thora aware of her own frailty (physically and mentally) yet still able to put it all together for one last truly great performance.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt tells too of the various shades of reality of existence that really are what some mental illness (or deterioration) can be about.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnd itu0026#39;s OK to laugh, because it shows the fragility of what we are all so sure of…our hold on the world and the way we see it. And that certainty is laughable.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ePete Postlethwaite – magic.”