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Monday, November 15, 2021

Supernova (2020)

Two immensely talented actors, Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci, portray a couple in a long standing relationship who are on a real as well as a metaphorical journey. THey are driving around in a camper visiting places and people that hold a lot of meaning to them for one last time as the couple they now are. Tucci is already in the early stages of dementia, and they both realize that soon they will not recognize each other, for different reasons, but the sadness of this realization is palpable. They are entirely believable in these roles, and they are also both quite believable as men, in that they talk almost not at all. The layers of the future losses are unfolded as the movie progresses, and the options that they might consider are also laid out, mostly without dialog. I almost watched it on a trans-Atlantic flight, which would have been a mistake, but it is a well done film on yet another of the sad realities of aging.

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