Vortex

Vortex

Life is a short party that will soon be forgotten.

2021142 min7.1 / 10

A deeply intimate portrait of an elderly couple confronting dementia and mortality, suffused with melancholy acceptance and the fragility of shared memory.

Lui, a struggling author with a heart condition, and his wife Elle, a retired psychiatrist, find their idyllic life shattered when Elle begins to succumb to the effects of dementia.

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