Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory (2014)

Original title

Alive Inside

Directed by

Michael Rossato-Bennett

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 18m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 83 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary shows how personalized music can help elderly people with dementia and Alzheimer's remember parts of their lives. It follows patients and their families as they discover the effects of music on mood and memory.

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What happens

Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory is a 2014 American documentary film directed and produced by Michael Rossato-Bennett. The film premiered in the competition category of U.S. Documentary Competition program at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2014. It won the Audience Award: U.S. Documentary at the festival. The documentary explores diseases that impair neurological function, such as Alzheimer's disease and dementia, and proposes a treatment option that is claimed to improve a patient's quality of life. It discusses that the elderly community are on the decline in social status and that western society neglects old age to idealize youth. It includes a series of interviews with individuals on neurology, geriatrics, and music. The documentary tells the story of patients and their experience with music and creating personalized playlists for elderly patients with dementia and Alzheimer's disease based on their music preferences. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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