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- 2018
- Icarus Films
- 1 h 27 m
- 2018
- Icarus Films
- 1 h 27 m
Summary Every year in France, 92,000 people are placed under psychiatric care without their consent. By law, the hospital has 12 days to bring each patient before a judge. Based on medical records and a doctor’s recommendations, a crucial decision has to be made – will the patient stay or leave?
- 2018
- Icarus Films
- 1 h 27 m
- 2018
- Icarus Films
- 1 h 27 m
12 Days
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Summary Every year in France, 92,000 people are placed under psychiatric care without their consent. By law, the hospital has 12 days to bring each patient before a judge. Based on medical records and a doctor’s recommendations, a crucial decision has to be made – will the patient stay or leave?
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Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
81
100% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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By keeping the camera focused on the faces of patients and judges alike, Depardon — working again with sound recordist and producer Claudine Nougaret — reveals shreds of humanity, and even moments of hilarity, in these closed-door sessions.
It’s a quietly devastating film.
None of the interactions come across as a sham or an empty formality. Patients are treated with respect, at least in the hearings room.... There’s also genuine and inadvertent humor in the midst of sadness and administrative formalities.
[A] lucid, focused and adamant documentary.
At times unbearably intimate, even invasive, the photographer-documentarian Raymond Depardon’s 12 Days is the kind of film you might wonder, as you watch, whether you should be watching. I’m glad I did, and I can’t discount the empathy that this study of mental illness and bureaucratic practice stirs or the understanding it crystallizes.
With a tender and respectful gaze, 12 DAYS (@distribfilmsus) sheds light on the relationship between the French state and the mentally ill.
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Production Company
Palmeraie et Désert,
Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Cinéma,
France 2 Cinéma,
Wild Bunch,
Palatine Étoile 14,
Orange Cinéma Séries,
Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes,
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC),
La Région Île-de-France
Release Date Mar 16, 2018
Duration 1 h 27 m
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Awards
Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
