original title:
PerdutaMente
directed by:
editing:
production:
Vera Film, WellSee, supported by Ministero della Cultura, in collaboration with Fondazione Polli Stoppani, with the support of Roberto Cavalli
distribution:
country:
Italy
year:
2021
film run:
76'
format:
colour
release date:
14/02/2022
Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative condition that affects the Central Nervous
System, causing physical and mental decay, memory loss, together with a lacking
perception of Self and reality.
Paolo Ruffini hits the road on a journey all across Italy, interviewing patients and families
dealing with Alzheimer, in every way victims of this disease, with a huge physical and
emotional burden to bear.
To this day, there’s no going back from Alzheimer, but love and care appear to be
therapeutic instruments to alleviate it.
This is the reason why the narrative heart of this documentary is not the disease itself, but
the emotional universe that bounds patients to their beloved ones. All the interviews are
willing to tell love stories and their infinite shapes: parents and children, husbands and
wives, brothers and sisters.
While remembrance of reality is gradually shattered, emotional memory still dwells among
scattered fragments of existence, representing the one and only bound that patients keep
with life.
“I don’t know who you are, but I know I love you”