Film

I went to a film this afternoon...

The New Zealand International Film Festival is going on right now.  This one was called First Cousin Once Removed; have you heard of it?  It was first released in 2012 at a film festival in New York I think.

It's a documentary spanning 5 years in the later life of Edwin Honig, the poet, professor and translator and his progression with Alzheimer's.  He was a professor at Brown University and the film opens in his room somewhere in Providence of all places in the world.  Who knew.  I certainly didn't.

It's well worth finding and watching.  Quite raw, quite honest.  Heartbreaking.  I recognized a few idiosyncracies.  Wept through the entire film.

http://www.nziff.co.nz/2014/auckland/first-cousin-once-removed/

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