World Alzheimer´s Day 2017

Today is World Alzheimer´s Day or World Alzheimer´s Disease Day, which means that 21^st September is the date that has been chosen worldwide in order to raise awareness of this disease. Those of us who have found out what this disease entails as someone close to us has suffered or is suffering from it can fully grasp the importance of this day. You may think that this day doesn´t bear any relation to the theme of this blog but that´s not true because if you come to think of it, making, watching, speaking and writing about films implies dealing with the issues that affect all of us. Therefore, when yesterday I learned about this day, I couldn´t help thinking about a beautiful film which is based on a short story – The Bear Came Over the Mountain – by the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. I wrote a post about this film some time ago (“On short stories and films”  8^th November 2013) and I have thought that you may like to have a look at it. If you don´t know what Alzheimer´s  is about – I really doubt it – or you wish to learn about it in a different way,  why don´t you watch Away from Her, a film by the actress and director Sarah Polley? 

 There are other films which also deal with this disease. For instance, in 2015 a very famous actress won a BAFTA award as well as an Oscar award for her performance as a linguistics professor who is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer´s , which film am I referring to?