Mamma Gógó

Gogo is an elderly woman who is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. The film covers both what happens to her with the illness and how her family reacts to it. Her son is a director and is in serious money trouble because his own film did badly at the box office. As the illness progresses the family decides to move her into a nursing home; neither Gogo nor her dead husband, who appears in the scenes, is pleased with the decision. Meanwhile the son has to sell his mother’s flat and her paintings. The director drew on his own life. Kristbjorg Kjeld plays the lead in Fridrik Thor Fridriksson’s ninety minute Icelandic film, completed in 2010.