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Walk to Beautiful, A
Engel Entertainment

Walk to Beautiful, A reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 82 Metascore out of 100
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

A feature documentary telling the stories of women suffering from obstetric fistula, a horrifying childbirth injury that effects over tow million in developing countries around the world. (Engel Entertainment)


GENRE(S): Documentary  
DIRECTED BY: Mary Olive Smith
Amy Bucher
 
RELEASE DATE: Theatrical: February 8, 2008 
RUNNING TIME: 85 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 
LANGUAGE(S): Amharic / English 

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100
Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
A Walk to Beautiful will leave you speechless two times over -- first with despair, then with joy. Neither unmentionable subject matter nor nonexistent commercial prospects can keep this documentary from having a power over your heart that is unparalleled.
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90
The New York Times Matt Zoller Seitz
A complex and quietly devastating indictment of chauvinist societies that see women as lovers, mothers and servants, and treat anyone who can’t fulfill those roles as a nonperson.
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75
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
An unabashed call to action that shines a spotlight on a problem whose intimate medical nature relegated it to the shadows.
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70
Variety John Anderson
Competently made, precisely shot and buoyantly humanistic.
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70
Village Voice Nick Pinkerton
Aside from a few casual digs at the loutishness of the rural Ethiopian male, documentarians Mary Olive Smith and Amy Bucher feel no need to overlay this health-care calamity with pious outrage; any editorial is implied in the immutable facts from overworked gynecologists and the camera's testament.
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60
Film Threat Phil Hall
A stirring and touching production, and it is difficult not to be moved by the women’s medical progress. However, it suffers from a somewhat leisurely pacing.
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