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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Coixet again pairs hushed visual melancholy with a gradual, deeply compassionate connection between guarded people, preserving the intimate emotional restraint that makes Ann’s story so affecting.
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Why this pick
A quietly devastating portrait of a woman facing irreversible change, told through small daily observations, moral pressure, and a patient attention to beauty rather than melodrama.
03
Why this pick
This gentle, tactile drama finds dignity and unexpected companionship in everyday work and concealed pain, matching the tender, unhurried sensitivity of My Life Without Me.
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Why this pick
A profoundly humane meditation on bodily autonomy, love, and mortality that balances its difficult subject with warmth, wryness, and vivid relationships rather than sentimentality.
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Why this pick
For its unsparing but compassionate attention to a couple’s private routines under illness; it shares Coixet’s interest in how devotion is tested in the smallest domestic moments.
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01 / THE STORY
Ann (Sarah Polley) is a hard-working 23-year-old mother with two small daughters, an unemployed husband (Scott Speedman), a mother (Debbie Harry) who sees her life as a failure, and a jailed father whom she has not seen for ten years. Her life changes dramatically when, during a medical checkup following a collapse, she is diagnosed with metastatic ovarian cancer and told that she has only two months to live.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Ann
Ann's Mother
Penny
Patsy
Camille Martínez
Laurie
Don
