An intimate and honest documentary portrait of old age, 'Mr. Joe lives alone' presents an old man's solitude and disconnectedness to the outside world after his wife dies of Alzheimer's and his faculties begin to fail him. Memory is what remains.
A nonagenarian tells his life story in 6 minutes. From his sharecropper childhood where he had to "hustle up for food," through falling in love and then nursing his wife through the slow decline of Alzheimers. Now, he is determined to live alone and die in the house he built with his own hands.—Daneeta Loretta Jackson