Never Steady, Never Still (2017)

Directed by

Kathleen Hepburn

Genre

drama film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

18A

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 30 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman with Parkinson's disease tries to manage her daily life and her relationship with her adult son. At the same time, her son struggles with his own identity and place in the world.

intimateslow-burnmelancholicgroundedemotionally rawunderstatedgentlequietly devastating

What happens

Never Steady, Never Still is a Canadian drama film, which premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. The full-length directorial debut of Kathleen Hepburn, the film is a family drama which stars Shirley Henderson as Judy, a woman struggling with the advancing symptoms of Parkinson's disease while her son Jamie (Théodore Pellerin) is struggling to come to terms with his identity. The film is an expansion of Hepburn's earlier short film of the same title, which starred Tina Hedman as Judy and Dylan Playfair as Jamie and is partially based on Hepburn's own experiences with her mother's Parkinson's. Hepburn also wrote the screenplay for the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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