Alzheimers Society

Alzheimers Society – The Long Goodbye
Emotive, Family, Flashbacks, Monologue, Memories, a man talks at his mother’s funeral about how much they loved her and how tragic every loss was in her journey of Alzheimer’s, like a little death every step of the way, home video footage of a family throughout their journey, a woman as a young mother and then later as an older woman in home movies, family photographs on the table, a home video of a mother carrying a casserole in the kitchen, a group of women walking together on the street, women lying head to head laughing, mother sitting on her bed talking to adult children, home video of Christmas tree and family around Christmas time, a boy using a rubiks cube for a video camera, mother sitting on the couch with her son’s head on her lap, a man standing by bedroom window talking to his mother, a man sitting in the kitchen thinking, boy cooking with mother in the kitchen, mature couple cooking in the kitchen, tears on mature man’s face while listening to son making a speech, couple lying on the bed looking at each other, a family having fun wearing birthday cardboard crowns, husband kissing wife on the forehead, woman smiling for home recording camera, dementia

Director: Charlotte Regan
DoP: Christopher Sabogal