00:00From where do you get inspiration for this familiar touch and why upon to you in the cinema today we don't speak about the older people. You call the film a coming of older age.
00:23So the starting point for the film was my grandmother. She was a poetry editor and intellectual and someone whose sense of self was rooted in her linguistic expression. And when she became nonverbal after a few years of suffering from dementia, my family started speaking about her almost as if she were no longer there.
00:43And yet she was so physically expressive and so alive in other ways. And that space between the person we spoke about as no longer there and the person in front of me who was very much alive that haunted me for many, many years.
00:57As an old person, there's a kind of terror of age in our society that people get old comes as a surprise to them and is terrifying to people who aren't old.
01:11Whereas from the point of view of the human being, it's just life. You continue. But we've lost the idea that this is and we have some notion that it's somehow avoidable and that if we don't avoid it, we've fallen short.
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