Op-ed: ‘Films show love healing mental suffering’
January 19th, 2009
Chris Knight of Canada’s National Post [Toronto] writes from the Sundance festival that a number of films featured this year explore disability-related topics. Their common theme? “Love heals,” he says.
Among them are “Son of Sunshine” (Tourette’s syndrome); “Mary and Max” (Asperger’s syndrome); “Adam” (Asperger’s syndrome); and “Helen” (depression).
“Over the Hills and Far Away,” a documentary (above), follows a British journalist and his American psychology-professor wife as they search for a cure for their son’s autism. The quest leads them to a shaman in Mongolia. In a more comic vein, there’s “Shrink” (Kevin Spacy as a psychiatrist to the stars).
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(Movie still from Sundance site)
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