- Summary: A documentary follows the last months of Neil Platt, a young father with terminal and debilitating motor neuron disease.
- Director: Emma Davie
- Genre(s): Biography, Documentary
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Sep 6, 201391I Am Breathing is not a documentary intended to induce sobbing. It is, instead, a film about dying that is stunningly alive, wildly optimistic, and always insightful and entertaining.
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90The 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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Sep 6, 201388An earnest and important film. It deserves to be seen by anyone who is interested in documentaries and anyone who is interested in the simple human stories movies too often overlook.
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70Mr. 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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70Not so much harrowing as achingly reflective.
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70"Breathing" takes its humorous, contemplative tonal cues from Neil himself.
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Sep 4, 201340Emma 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.
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