Much Ado About Dying Simon Chambers- David Rane

Published: April 30, 2023, 12:20 p.m.

Filmmaker Simon Chambers finds his life drastically interrupted when he is called back to London from India to care for his retired bohemian gay actor Uncle David. Everything that could go wrong does go wrong. David\u2019s anarchic spirit is unbreakable. He fights with Simon, refusing to go into a care home, insisting on dying in the squalor of his unheated tumble-down house. He can\u2019t remember where he put his false teeth but he still knows nearly all the lines from his beloved Shakespeare plays. David\u2019s real life starts to echo \u201cKing Lear\u201d, the play about an old man going mad and giving his kingdom away, as David starts giving away thousands of pounds to a hot sexy \u201chelper\u201d. How do we deal with and care for our relatives who are living longer than ever? How does Simon help David to have a good death?