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.
I Am Breathing
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Denmark, United Kingdom · 2013
1h 12m
Director Morag McKinnon
Starring Neil Platt
Genre Documentary
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With 5 months left to live, and paralyzed from the neck down by Motor Neuron Disease, Neil ponders how to communicate about his life in a letter for his baby son. How can he anticipate what his son might want to know about his father in a future he can only imagine?
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
Los Angeles Times by Annlee Ellingson
"Breathing" takes its humorous, contemplative tonal cues from Neil himself.
A deeply affecting glimpse of a man's quest to salvage beauty from tragedy.
Not so much harrowing as achingly reflective.
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.
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.
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