10/11/2010
Hilary and Jackie (1998): I grieve that I never got the chance to see Jacqueline in her prime. But more so, that MS brought her down and killed her. My wife has MS, its pace for her is much slower than the 20 years it took to kill Jackie. Slower, but just as bitterly relentless. The devastation of the disease is portrayed effectively in the film even though it is compressed in the telling. Some critics challenged the portrayal of incontinence, of tremors, of puzzling mental behavior.
Drama. Enfermedad / De niñas, las hermanas Hilary y Jackie estudiaron música. Jackie, la menor de las dos, pronto adquirió fama como concertista de violencello mientras que Hilary, con la flauta, sólo actuaba de vez en cuando. En lo personal, las cosas les fueron justamente al revés. Hilary se casó
