Flore

Anyone who has witnessed the devastating effects of Alzheimer’s, on both those who have it and the family and friends who love them, can attest to how difficult the experience is. In “Flore,” filmmaker Jean-Albert Lièvre documents his mother’s battle with the disease. We follow the pair’s progress, from her stay in a facility that medicates her to near stupor to the Corsican house where, in sight of the sea and unmedicated, she improves. Lièvre’s film is a study both of the negative nature of drugs and of the never-ending hope for recovery. In French with English subtitles.