From KCRW and Santa Monica, this is the treatment.

Deliberation and passion, these are qualities that Sarah Polly is brought to the screen as an actress.

She's also bringing them to the screen as a director

with her feature film debut as a director away from her starring Julie Christie. She's my guest. Sarah,

thanks for being here. Thank you so much for having me. Tell us a little bit what the movie's

about. Well, the movie is a portrait of a marriage. Julie Christie's character, Fiona, is married

to Gordon Pinson's character, Grant, and begins to Gordon Pinson's character, Grant,

and begins to exhibit symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and is compelled to go and live in a retirement home.

And the film really focuses on the unraveling of their marriage and an examination of a kind of unconditional love that that grant becomes capable of.

Now, it stars Julie Christie with whom you worked in No Such Thing. What was your first

contact with her like? She's somebody who I'd always idolized and had looked up to my whole

life, both for her acting, but also her political activism. And we really hit it off when we met. And she became

a very good friend and a great support to me as I was making, you know, my short films. And when I read

this short story by Alice Monroe, which was originally called The Bear Came Over the Mountain,

I immediately knew that I had to cast Julie in this part and that, in fact, I wanted to make

the film to see her play this role. Yeah, but she doesn't want to see herself play too many

roles, though, does she? No, she's not the most ambitious of actors. But, you know, she's had such

an incredible career. I think, you know, she's just at a, you know, time in her life where it's not the first thing in her mind to go out and find a leading role for herself to play.

So it was definitely, it took some convincing to get her to take on a part this big.

You must feel in some ways like her career is quite similar to hers and that she does what she wants to do when she wants to do and is very specific about it.

I mean, she's definitely an inspiration to me.

At the same time, I feel like the decisions she's had to make have been, you know, on a scale that, you know, I'll never, you know, have to deal with or imagine.

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