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Emma Davie and Morag McKinnon’s doc walks the line between a deathwatch film and an uplifting one, rather than simply rubbing the viewer’s nose in the horror of mortality.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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Los Angeles Times by Annlee Ellingson
"Breathing" takes its humorous, contemplative tonal cues from Neil himself.
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A deeply affecting glimpse of a man's quest to salvage beauty from tragedy.
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Not so much harrowing as achingly reflective.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Neil Young
The last couple of years in one tragically truncated life are chronicled with a winning combination of sensitivity and humor in I Am Breathing.
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The New York Times by Nicolas Rapold
Mr. Platt’s good-humored attitude helps keep the potent material from turning mawkish, and having his perspective also wards off a sense of exploitive voyeurism.