I've Loved You So Long

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Young Lys tells her aunt Juliette, "Grandpa's lost his mind and his tongue!" (0:06)

Lys' mom Léa tells Juliette about adoption with "Endless visits from social workers and psychologists!" (0:22)

Léa tells Juliette, referring to their mother, "Four years after Dad died she started to lose her memory... But now she doesn't recognize anybody. When I visit she thinks I'm a nurse or a neighbor sometimes." (0:39)

Teacher Michel tells Juliette, referring to an acquaintance, "When he's sober he's a nice guy." (1:04)

Their mother mistakes Léa for a nurse.
Mom tells Léa, "Who? I don't know you."
"Stop calling me Mom."
She eventually does recognize Juliette, albeit as though she were were still a young girl: "My little Juliette. You're back from school already." (1:23)

Lt. Segral tells Juliette what became of police Capitaine Fauré,  "If that's what you call shooting yourself through the mouth." (1:34)

Juliettetells Léa how she euthanized her six year old son to stop his suffering from a terminal illness. (1:50)

amnesia | aphasia | Bereavement | disorientation | suicide

Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein 2008