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Feel My Love (DVD) (*)

$28.99

Screened, competed or awarded at:
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
78 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2014 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Griet Teck

Written By:
Griet Teck

Actors:
Griet Teck

Synopsis:

Feel my love is a compelling observation of human existence and paints an intimate portrait of life and growing old with dementia. For an entire year, the documentary follows the people who live together in Huis Perrekes (Oosterlo, Belgium) as they go about their daily lives and rituals, supported by each other and by their loved ones. Using music as a motif, this consciously light-hearted film looks at what is still there, not at what has been lost. 'feel my love' is about love, letting go, wonder and the human desire to be there until the very end.

An estimated six million people in the EU suffer from forms of dementia such as Alzheimer's disease. Disappearing memories of the pre-World War II generation soberly and lovingly captured by young Flemish filmmaker and camerawoman Griet Teck. She filmed the daily activities of Louise, Bes, Denise, Louisa, Betty, Rosa and Jean for four seasons as they were supervised and helped by nurses, family and others. The film exudes an unusually clear intimacy in its focus on the faces of elderly people struggling with their loss of identity; people for whom music is the final means of expression. This has resulted in an almost anthropological film about a very serious subject: bidding farewell to life and to who you are. The fragile force of life visualised in a sincere, non-pushy, unbiased manner.

Age brings infirmity. Dementia is on the rise in Europe's greying population. Observational Flemish documentary touchingly shows how the pre-war generation and their caregivers deal with disappearing memories and how music is often the last means of expression.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 29 January, 2016.