“Our Body” has secured North American distribution following its world premiere eventually month’s Berlinale. Cinema Guild scored rights to Claire Simon’s look inside a public hospital’s gynecological ward. Deadline reviews that the documentary is predicted to hit theaters later this 12 months.
Offering a glimpse contained in the “everyday operations” of the Paris ward, “Our Body” “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,” the supply teases.
The movie not too long ago screened at MoMA’s Doc Fortnight in addition to True/False Film Fest.
“We’ve long been impressed by Claire Simon’s rigorous and compassionate approach to filmmaking and are so excited for the chance to bring her latest the U.S.,” mentioned Cinema Guild President Peter Kelly. “’Our Body’ displays a filmmaker at the peak of her powers. It raises so many questions that women everywhere face and that couldn’t be more critical to our own national discourse.”
Simon’s different movies embrace “I Want to Talk About Duras” and “The Competition.”
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