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Magazine**** New York Times "Assisted Living raises other questions, having to do with the ways that fictions shape everyone's lives, the faces you put on and the stories you tell (yourself and others), to get through each day. Shot at a real assisted living home, the Masonic Homes of Kentucky, and featuring real staff members and residents, the film uses its part-documentary structure to explore such profound fictions, the ways all narratives, all identities, might be understood as efforts to stave off daily, unfixable fears -- of incoherence, of loss, of rejection. The easy moral to draw is that everyone needs assistance in living, but the more difficult truth is that living is illusory always." Indiewire "Greenebaum is an alchemist, combining real moments and real people, documentary style, with an exceptional story and what ensues is a magical film." TV Guide ***½ "Greenebaum's film deals honestly with the elderly without a trace of condescension, and it can be very funny. The chemistry between Todd and Mrs. Pearlman is often wonderful, but the film's best moments are those which show the facility's residents simply doing what they do. . . Greenebaum manages to portray old-age as a condition with its own peculiar beauty and considerable grace." New City Chicago "Assisted Living is an audacious work of hope, compassion and grace." Long Beach Press Telegram*** Greenebaum intersperses scenes with his actors with shots from the nursing home, his camera lingering on the resident's bony fingers and swollen feet, capturing small moments of triumph (putting on a sock, for instance) and heartbreak (a hand searching for an object that isn't there). The result is a blend of fact and fiction that feels like a breath of fresh air in a medium that too often trivializes the hard realities of age. Film Threat **** "It’s absolutely pretty to look at throughout – magnificently shot! Filmed at a real nursing home with many of the actual patients making appearances, it’s difficult at first to tell whether this is a documentary or a fictional work and this makes “Assisted Living” all the more involving." Catholic News Service "Directed by first-timer Elliot Greenebaum, "Assisted Living" manages, despite its no-frills look, to offer a moving meditation on loneliness and the human need for contact and compassion." FilmCritic.com Generously appreciates the very human conditions of its characters and culminates in a unique story worthy of attention. Variety "Assisted Living will connect with audiences tired of Hollywood's sentimental portrayals of growing old. It will also draw inevitable comparison to 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'." Joe Critic Greenebaum treats his subjects with the greatest respect, almost love. |
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Elliot on NPR's Kojo Nnamdi Show Radio Interview with Elliot Elliot on NPR's On Second Thought Radio Interview with Elliot Interview with Elliot on Coping with Caregiving Radio Interview with Elliot NPR's Morning Edition Interview with Elliot Greenebaum New York Times Magazine & Letters to the Editor "Like a cross between Errol Morris and Todd Solondz." San Francisco Chronicle Feature story about Producer Alex Laskey & Elliot Greenebaum Online Interview with Elliot Greenebaum  The New Yorker Cartoon. (click to see full size)  New York Magazine "Approval Matrix." Assisted Living is "Highbrow" & "Brilliant" (click to see full size)  Esquire's "7 Most Remarkable Things in Culture This Month." (click to see full size)  Hadassah Magazine story about Maggie Riley, the actress who plays Mrs. Pearlman (click to see full size) |
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