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- 2013
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- 1 h 12 m
- 2013
- Distrify
- 1 h 12 m
Summary A documentary follows the last months of Neil Platt, a young father with terminal and debilitating motor neuron disease.
Directed By: Emma Davie, Morag McKinnon
- 2013
- Distrify
- 1 h 12 m
- 2013
- Distrify
- 1 h 12 m
I Am Breathing
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Summary A documentary follows the last months of Neil Platt, a young father with terminal and debilitating motor neuron disease.
Directed By: Emma Davie, Morag McKinnon
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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78% Positive
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22% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
71
78% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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I 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.
The last couple of years in one tragically truncated life are chronicled with a winning combination of sensitivity and humor in I Am Breathing.
"Breathing" takes its humorous, contemplative tonal cues from Neil himself.
The directors' intimate domestic images only occasionally match the humour and ruminative poetry of their subject's own, blog-published words, but ghoulishness and undue sentimentality are kept at bay.
Emma 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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Production Company
Scottish Documentary Institute,
Danish Documentary Production
Release Date Sep 6, 2013
Duration 1 h 12 m
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Awards
BAFTA Awards, Scotland
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
RiverRun International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
