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Familiar Touch
Directed by
Sarah Friedland
Not Rated
2024
90m
Drama
7.1
98%
6.2
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An octogenarian woman transitions to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship to herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.
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Cast of Familiar Touch
Kathleen Chalfant
Ruth
Carolyn Michelle
Vanessa
Andy McQueen
Brian
H. Jon Benjamin
Steve
Katelyn Nacon
Sophie
Joahn Webb
Pearl
London Garcia
Cynthia
Mike G.
Rudy
Sandy Velasco
Angela
Alison Martin
Joan
Sarah Friedland
Director / Writer / Producer
Alexandra Byer
Producer
Matthew Thurm
Producer
Marni E.J. Grossman
Executive Producer
Regina K. Scully
Executive Producer
Lauren Melinda
Executive Producer
Abby Sher
Executive Producer
Yuval Bar-Zemer
Associate Producer
Stephanie Osin Cohen
Production Design
Yiming Zhao
Art Direction
Familiar Touch Ratings & Reviews
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
Director and screenwriter Sarah Friedland's exquisite film is heartbreakingly authentic but warmhearted and even joyful at moments, as it respects the life of the regal and refined Ruth as well as those who know her or are just getting to know her...
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
Chalfant's Ruth is merely, momentously human: an older woman in need, but no less expressive of life's fullness because of it. It's a portrayal to remember, for as long as any of us can.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The result is an auspicious first feature, and I'd see it if I were you.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Manuel Betancourt
A lovely, gentle film.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Christy Lemire
An incredible, beautiful feature debut, and a towering performance from Kathleen Chalfant.
The New Yorker
Justin Chang
It's devastating to behold. But devastation is only the culmination, and not the entirety, of Ruth's journey, and Chalfant's performance, for all its exquisite subtlety, is also furiously alive.
Filmspotting
Adam Kempenaar
Friedland's conceit pays off with quiet power, revealing how the body remembers even when the mind no longer holds on.
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
"Touch" is a quiet, impressionistic slice of life, at times a bit surreal and/or comedic; there are a few moments that seem over-indulgent of actor improvisation. But it is always grounded by Chalfant.
Washington Post
Ty Burr
Our society treats aging like a curse never to be mentioned instead of the inevitability it is, but Friedland's film challenges us to see it head-on.
Spectrum Culture
Erik Reeds
It's a joy to find something as refreshing as Sarah Friedland's un-melodramatic Familiar Touch, a promising debut full of beaming light and beaming people.
Observer
Rex Reed
'Familiar Touch' is that near-extinct cinematic species: a film about old age that neither wallows in pity nor begs for applause.
New York Times
Beatrice Loayza
In the end, "Familiar Touch" reveals itself to be less about the agonies of change than in the concessions we make to feel closer to our loved ones and ourselves.
Wall Street Journal
Zachary Barnes
"Familiar Touch" is a film about forgetting, but it's also a reminder -- as moving, sincere and gracefully unadorned as any I've seen in some time -- of the actor's art.
RogerEbert.com
Jourdain Searles
A gorgeous drama with an open, aching heart.
AV Club
Jacob Oller
Because writer-director Sarah Friedland's debut finds so much depth in its subjective approach to memory loss, it loses much of its stigma and discovers wonder in its place.
Variety
Guy Lodge
Friedland's film, as sharp as it is soft, conveys both the terror of losing the life you recognize, and the intermittent, fragmented joy of finding it again.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Alison Willmore
Familiar Touch can be sad, without question, but it's also salty and boundlessly tender.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
What Friedland keenly understands is the power of what's unsaid, how memories can tie themselves to sound, smell, and touch too, and how sometimes those are the last to go.
The Hollywood Reporter
Lovia Gyarkye
Like any good coming-of-age movie, Familiar Touch never condescends. It takes its protagonist's experience with dislocation, unrequited love and the desire to be understood quite seriously.
IndieWire
Kate Erbland
Friedland, who also wrote the film's script, is not given over to histrionics or blaring displays of emotion, instead asking us to follow Ruth and experience the world through her eyes. The impact is profound.
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