Familiar Touch

$12 General Admission | $6 Student | Member benefits apply

“A gorgeous drama with an aching, open heart” —Jourdain Searles, RogerEbert.com

Familiar Touch is the feature debut of director Sarah Friedlander, who earned Best First Feature honors at the Venice Film Festival. It tells the story of Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant), a retired cook, who must come to terms with life in an assisted living facility. Among her fellow memory care residents, Ruth feels lost and adrift, certain she has found herself somewhere she does not belong. As she slowly begins to accept the warmth and support of care workers Vanessa (Carolyn Michelle) and Brian (Andy McQueen), she finds new ways to ground herself in her body, even as her mind embarks on a journey all its own.

Chalfant anchors the film with a titanic performance that should be in the conversation come Oscar time, “radiating a magnetic yet dubious sense of poise that undergirds the film’s careful balance of tragedy and hope” (New York Times, Critic’s Pick).

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