'Aurora Borealis': Drama doesn't quite light up the night skies

Oakland Tribune | September 29, 2006| | Copyright

IN the final stages of life, many elderly go through a slow deterioration that takes its toll on others as well as themselves.

Because it is so painful, it's a subject seldom addressed in cinema.

"Aurora Borealis," an unsettling drama bolstered by strong performances from Donald Sutherland and Louise Fletcher, confronts it directly, but keeps it a secondary device and puts a far less interesting one first.

Ronald Shorter (Sutherland) sits in his sixth-floor apartment shaking from Parkinson's and weakened by kidney disease.

Also, his devoted wife Ruth (Fletcher) fears he may be showing ...

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