Quote:
"[The Company of Strangers] is a film on aging, with seven elderly women as its subject, that takes the form of a narrative precariously balanced between ethnography and performance, history and pathos. The delicate interweaving of documentary and fiction through the thematics of mortality and female bonding produces a very unusual spectatorial effect."
-- Catherine Russell

Source:
Russell, Catherine. "Mourning the Woman's Film: The Dislocated Spectator of The Company of Strangers." In Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema, edited by Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow, and Janine Marchessault. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. (p. 212)