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  • 2014
  • Cavu Pictures
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2014
  • Cavu Pictures
  • 1 h 25 m

Summary With unexpected humor, with an unflinching camera, with some guilt and some pain, this film takes the unusual risk of examining what breast milk truly means. We are often told that breast milk is better. Better for babies, better for mothers, better for nutrition, health, well-being, and society. Many accept this and yet there are still ...

Directed By: Dana Ben-Ari

  • 2014
  • Cavu Pictures
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2014
  • Cavu Pictures
  • 1 h 25 m

Breastmilk

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary With unexpected humor, with an unflinching camera, with some guilt and some pain, this film takes the unusual risk of examining what breast milk truly means. We are often told that breast milk is better. Better for babies, better for mothers, better for nutrition, health, well-being, and society. Many accept this and yet there are still ...

Directed By: Dana Ben-Ari

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Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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70
May 15, 2014
Audiences will find themselves face to face with their own prejudices, assumptions and, perhaps, squeamishness.
By Sheri Linden FULL REVIEW
70
May 13, 2014
Ben-Ari seems just as invested, if not more so, in the social and psychological obstacles that can make breastfeeding problematic, and she explores them with impressive rigor, sensitivity and a refreshing lack of judgment, listening intently while prescribing little.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
70
May 6, 2014
Ben-Ari elegantly conveys the crippling social pressures that arise when a woman suggests that she might be allowed agency over her own body and that of her child, without adding any words of her own.
By Diana Clarke FULL REVIEW
70
May 6, 2014
Empathetic and nosy, Ms. Ben-Ari is no unequivocal cheerleader for breast over bottle: If anything, her subjects’ time-consuming struggles and evident exhaustion could put a damper on the natural-feeding plans of the most sanguine new parent. Yet the film isn’t a downer.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
50
Jul 31, 2014
There could be a fascinating and illuminating movie in this.
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30
May 7, 2014
A mid-film montage of nipples squirting milk high into the air like the Bellagio fountains shows Ben-Ari has a sense of style and humor, but her general approach is tediously earnest, resulting in a documentary with such niche appeal (just parents with breastfeeding problems, basically) that it belongs on a library’s self-help shelf.
By Mike D'Angelo FULL REVIEW

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Release Date May 7, 2014
Duration 1 h 25 m
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Website http://breastmilkthemovie.com/
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