Our Body (Notre Corps) [In-Person Only]
This event took place Aug 30 - Sep 3, 2023
$14 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 NWFF Member
Claire Simon
France
2023
2h 48m
About
(Claire Simon, France, 2023, 168 min, in English & French with English subtitles)
In Our Body, French documentary titan Claire Simon observes the everyday operations of the gynecological ward in a public hospital in Paris. In the process, she questions what it means to live in a woman’s body, filming the diversity, singularity and beauty of patients in all stages of life. We see cancer screenings and fertility appointments, a teenager dealing with an unwanted pregnancy, a trans woman considering the beginnings of menopause. Through these encounters and many more, the specific fears, desires and struggles of these individuals become the health challenges we all face, even the filmmaker herself.
Synopsis courtesy of Cinema Guild.
Credit for all stills: A still from Claire Simon’s “OUR BODY.” Courtesy of Cinema Guild.
“In a style similar to Frederick Wiseman, Simon films with purpose and empathy. … Our Body shows that all bodies in a hospital are ensnared in a subtle warfare. There’s a tension to delivering bleak diagnoses, grief in disappointing news, anger at not feeling heard. When Simon shows a demonstration led by women protesting the stark power imbalance between female patients and healthcare practitioners, the political stakes of her project become clearer. Hospitals are fraught spaces and their halls are respites from the push-pull between caregivers and their charges, between the realities of diagnoses and the hopes of treatment…” – Lovia Gyarkye, Hollywood Reporter
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Ticketing, concessions, cinemas, restrooms, and our public edit lab are located on Northwest Film Forum’s ground floor, which is wheelchair accessible. All doors in Northwest Film Forum are non-motorized, and may require staff assistance to open. Our upstairs workshop room is not wheelchair accessible.
The majority of seats in our main cinema are 21″ wide from armrest to armrest; some seats are 19″ wide. We are working on creating the option of removable armrests!
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