Lost Down Memory Lane
2010 · 87 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 28 VOTES · DIR. Klara van Es
Overview
This documentary is about living with Alzheimer's, seen exclusively through the eyes of people who suffer from it. Eight of them live together under constant supervision and care. They are all in the first phase of the disease: bouts of lucidity, forgetfulness and falling into oblivion constantly alternate. The patients live their lives, as long as they're capable. The film is a 'tranche de vie': a portrait of the daily coming and going of people in that particular and ditto state. It is also the portrait of a brutal disease that irreversible expropriates the memory from the characters. Eventually the characters will have changed. Because of their illness, they may have been disappeared completely, physically or mentally.
Dialogue Timeline — 747 lines
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00:03:18 Can't you open your yap? Have a cozy chat or something?
00:06:03 After that they said: You should be locked up.
00:10:52 I don't mind talking about it.
00:14:16 But then we set sail again, except that now there were the two of us.
00:17:03 François is wearing a beautiful rose.
00:20:10 I may
00:24:23 You look beautiful.
00:28:13 What do you think? Are you ready? Can I ask you now?
00:30:39 And in which village are we?
00:33:12 That was my husband around the time he died. He was 80 then.
00:36:10 I won something...
00:38:38 And he chattered away in French. Who knows what he was saying.
00:41:20 I can only tickle you.
00:45:56 I don't feel like doing nothing but sitting around all day long.
00:49:57 I think we're up to it. Do you know "kamer" (room)?
00:52:02 I don't think so. Book doesn't sound familiar.
00:54:25 Where do I sit? - Over there, I think.
00:56:56 You've got it underneath it. Just put it beside it. That's the best way.
01:00:30 Try to write down: my house.
01:04:31 Just like here.
01:09:35 Then it's always... - You'll be fine there.
01:15:32 I've always been enormously individualistic.
01:19:28 Sing it. - I love with all my life.
01:25:24 I don't think that we have to be that afraid of it.