Official Trailer for Claire Simon's Doc 'Our Body' About a Woman's Body

"Each person comes to the hospital with their own story..." The Cinema Guild has revealed an official trailer for an acclaimed doc film titled Our Body, from French director Claire Simon, film in a gynecology ward in France. It first premiered at the Berlin Film Festival this year, and also played at True/False and Cinéma du Réel. The Berlinale intro: "With a gaze full of tenderness, the French director looks around a gynaecology clinic in Paris, collecting scenes of births & cancer diagnoses, consultations on endometriosis and hormone therapy for an older trans woman. The film that emerges along the way starts off observational before it becomes ever more personal, a film about what it means to live in a female body and a wonderful example of the power of documentary cinema. Notre corps gathers together experiences with which one usually feels left alone; it makes the structures visible that deem troubles individual; it reveals the extent to which the things we don’t dare to talk about have a societal dimension and need to be discussed." Humanistic cinema. // Continue Reading ›

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