Ultimately, close to 30 Villa Gardens employees worked on “Familiar Touch,” along with 80 residents. The movie’s 80-year-old star, Chalfant, who shot the film when she was 78, saw the people ...

‘Familiar Touch’ Is a Rare and Compassionate Work of Art 'Familiar Touch' is that near-extinct cinematic species: a film about old age that neither wallows in pity nor begs for applause.