Tag: Body

‘Our Body’ review: Superb documentary probes women’s healthcare

[ad_1] The title of “Our Body” is spoken aloud during its most heated, least typical scene. A group of women are protesting outside a Paris hospital, speaking out about their personal experiences of obstetrical and gynecological violence and calling for greater accountability and transparency. “It’s our body, it belongs to us!” one of them declares,… Continue reading ‘Our Body’ review: Superb documentary probes women’s healthcare

Like a Political X-Ray, “Our Body” Exposes the Intrusions of Law in Medicine

[ad_1] The veteran French filmmaker Claire Simon’s new documentary, “Our Body,” explores the lives of patients and doctors in a women’s hospital in Paris. Nearly three hours long, it is a work of vast emotional scope, and Simon, who worked as a film editor in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, endows it with a grand conceptual… Continue reading Like a Political X-Ray, “Our Body” Exposes the Intrusions of Law in Medicine