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Amour
Why this pick
Its unsentimental closeness to an elderly couple facing irreversible decline echoes Iris's emotional candour and its central portrait of love becoming care.
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MOVIE2001 1h 31m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
When the young Iris Murdoch meets fellow student John Bayley at Somerville College, Oxford, he is a naive virgin easily flummoxed by her libertine spirit, arch personality, and obvious artistic talent. Decades later, little has changed and the couple keeps house, with John doting on his more famous wife. When Iris begins experiencing forgetfulness and dementia, however, the devoted John struggles with hopelessness and frustration, and becomes her caretaker, as his wife's mind deteriorates from the ravages of Alzheimer's disease.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Jim Broadbent
John Bayley
Hugh Bonneville
Young John Bayley
Penelope Wilton
Janet Stone
Samuel West
Young Maurice
Timothy West
Older Maurice
Kris Marshall
Dr. Gudgeon
Juliet Aubrey
Young Janet Stone
Juliet Howland
Emma Stone