16 minutes. One rainy room. A daughter's last gamble against silence.
On a rainy afternoon in a British nursing home, a woman struggles to make a last connection with her seemingly catatonic mother.
Acting
Deakins and Adalian's silent warfare—catatonia as devastating performance.
Direction
Deakins squeezes 40 years of damage into a single rainy afternoon.
Director
Sarah Deakins
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sarah Deakins wrote and directed this after her own grandmother's dementia diagnosis, filming in an actual Vancouver care facility during operating hours.
The 16-minute runtime mirrors the average 'meaningful visit' length in care homes—a constraint that becomes devastating artistic choice.
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