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From Madonna's "W.E." to Sarah Polley's "Take This Waltz", many of the films delved into familiar themes of relationships, marriage and children, but it is unfair to label them as "chick flicks", said Canadian actress and director Polley.

Women directors shine at Toronto film festival Reuters 2011

Meanwhile, more zestfully to greet December, here are a few gladdening also‑rans to note for your Christmas wishlist:The trickle of books to mark next summer in east London will soon become a flood but so far easily the most vivid and exuberant is Martin Polley's The British Olympics 1612‑2012 £17.99, latest impeccable and glistening little gem from Simon Inglis's occasional and lustrous English Heritage series.

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From Madonna's "W.E." to Sarah Polley's "Take This Waltz", many of the films delved into familiar themes of relationships, marriage and children, but it is unfair to label them as "chick flicks", said Canadian actress and director Polley.

Women directors shine at Toronto film festival Reuters 2011

It took me a long time to see Polley's first directing project, the nearly flawless "Away from Her," but I'm glad I finally did, because it's sublimely entertaining.

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It took me a long time to see Polley's first directing project, the nearly flawless "Away from Her," but I'm glad I finally did, because it's sublimely entertaining.

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Miss Polley's well-meaning if stripped down film is based on Alice Munro's short story, "The Bear Came Over the Mountain," and on the screen anyway, concerns a retired academic Grant (Gordon Pinsent) and his wife Fiona (Julie Christie), whose Alzheimer's has coarsened to the degree that she needs full care.

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"Much has been made of Polley's age (28), especially in relation to her material, but well intentioned as this sort of comment has mostly been, I think it's unfair," writes Carina Chocano.

GreenCine Daily: Away From Her. 2007

Alan Riding talks with Julie Christie about growing older, shunning celebrity and why she agreed to play Fiona in Sarah Polley's debut feature, Away From Her.

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"[N] ot only an excellent film, but also a tender, studied look at aging, love and loss, the product of a cinematic imagination wise way beyond Polley's years," writes Bilge Ebiri at Nerve, where he also interviews Polley.

GreenCine Daily: Away From Her. 2007

"Away From Her [site], Polley's first feature as a writer-director, comes to the Sundance Film Festival after an opening at Toronto that had local critics calling it 'one of the most astonishing feature debuts by a Canadian director in ages.'"

GreenCine Daily: Sundance. Away From Her. 2007