It’s National Canadian Film Day tomorrow, and it just so happens that this week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie fits that bill perfectly.

Well, almost perfectly. My guest, Auden Thornton, may not herself be Canadian, but she co-stars in the East Coast thriller Little Lorraine, which is opening across the country on Friday, and she picked a very Canadian drama for our conversation: Sarah Polley’s first feature, Away from Her, starring Gordon Pinsent and Julie Christie as a couple whose marriage is ended — quietly but brutally — by the onset of dementia.

Twenty years old but no less potent in its precise understanding of pride, love and loss — and a little more powerful now that both Pinsent and co-star Olympia Dukakis are no longer with us — it’s a spare but devastating film, an actors’ showcase made by someone who understands how much drama can be found in a close-up of a person’s face. And its depiction of cognitive decline is painfully on point: This was a tough one to revisit in the wake of the last decade, and I think you can hear that in my voice.

And yet, I still want people to hear it. Weird, huh? Subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts or your podcatcher of choice, or download the episode directly from the web and listen to it in a futile attempt to distract yourself from the crushing guilt of dropping your partner at the care home. I did say this one was cruel.

But hey, there’s always Shiny Things! And last week I wrote about Mercy and Randy and the Mob, two very different movies about people who find themselves in hells of their own making. It’s just that one of them has a pretty computer lady!

Of course, paid subscribers also got to enjoy Friday’s What’s Worth Watching newsletter, featuring my reviews of The Christophers, Exit 8 and Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice. If that sounds like something you’d enjoy, consider taking the 14-day free trial so you don’t miss this week’s roundup.

And happy NCFD for tomorrow! Go see something! If you’re in Toronto I recommend the 6:30pm show of Backspot at the Scotiabank, with D.W. Waterson and Devery Jacobs in attendance. That’ll be a blast.