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"Much Ado About Dying” Los Angeles Film Premiere
Simon Chambers’ Poignant IDFA Award Winning Documentary Finds Humor and Humanity in the Final Act of His Endearing Actor Uncle’s Life.
When the filmmaker Simon Chambers receives an email from his elderly gay uncle — “I think I may be dying” — he takes it as a summons. As it turns out, eccentric Uncle David, a retired actor living alone in a cluttered, mouse-infested London house, is being dramatic, sort of: For the next five years, Chambers both cares for and documents him, through all his performative exuberance (acting out passages of Shakespeare), anarchic charisma (swinging from boisterous humor to short temper), and physical/mental challenges. Their lives become encumbered by inadequate public and private eldercare support systems. Coping with hospital visits, a house fire, and a cancer diagnosis, the younger man (also single and queer) reflects with aching honesty on what may await him in the years to come. Winner of Best Directing at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Film score by the award-winning composer Irene Buckley, (Sinéad O’Connor, NOTHING COMPARES).
"Dying is like going on a wonderful holiday without the bother of packing!,” says exuberant gay Uncle David when he forces nephew Simon back to London to care for him.
Laemmle's Monica Film Center
1332 2nd St.
Santa Monica, CA 90401
(310) 478-3836
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