(Finishing Touch)
Director: Rolf Lyssy, Switzerland 2017. 99 min. Cast: Monica Gubser, Delia Mayer,
Michael Rutman, Peter Jecklin
In Swiss German with English Subtitles.
At 89 years of age, Gertrud is enviably vital and independent. Her greatest fear is ending her life suffering from dementia and confined to a long-term care home. She’s therefore shocked when George, an elegant Englishman turns up one day and claims that she wrote to him via a dating site. Gertrud is unable to recall doing any such thing, so she’s certain that she’s slowly losing control of her faculties. Gertrud decides that all she wants is a socially acceptable end – before she ends up in a clinic. But neither the hospice carer nor the family nor her new admirer George are willing to carry out her wish. This heart-warming and charming film broaches the question of when it really is time to go.
– Zurich Film Festival
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