In Sarah Friedland’s Venice Drama ‘Familiar Touch’ Older Adults Don’t ‘Fade Away’: ‘Their Senses Intensify’

Sarah Friedland isn’t done talking about the body just yet.

“My next film will be centered around it too. I’m working on a script that blends dance with narrative storytelling. I’ll probably do it for the rest of my life. At this point, I am too attuned to the rhythms of the body and its politics,” debuting director tells Variety.

In “Familiar Touch,” premiering in Venice’s Orizzonti section, she’s celebrating sensuality of older adults, especially Ruth (“The Affair”), transitioning to life in assisted living. Carolyn Michelle, Andy McQueen and H. Jon Benjamin also star.

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