‘Familiar Touch’ Is a Rare and Compassionate Work of Art

The remarkable and accomplished Kathleen Chalfant (Wit) strikes senior-citizen gold again in Familiar Touch. It’s another film about geriatric challenges faced by a woman at the end of a long, productive life as a loving, devoted wife and mother and a respected career as a successful chef, now adjusting to a new, unexpected chapter as an octogenarian in an assisted living facility. This is a problem that impacts the lives of so many people that it’s a shame it isn’t explored more often in the movies...