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  • Abuse Of Weakness (2013)
    Review preview for Abuse Of Weakness

    Breillat shows from her own experience with having suffered a stroke and the camera tells of the hospital and the patient's progress in a tone that is unsentimental, poignant, free.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    Film about Catherine Breillat’s 2004 stroke and subsequent self-destructive relationship with star swindler Christophe Rocancourt.
  • Heal The Living (2016)
    Review preview for Heal The Living

    Anna Dorval as the transplant's recipient, Dominique Blanc's surgeon, and Emmanuelle Seigner's turn as the mother of the donor are all note-perfect.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    Drama about lives connected by an organ transplant.

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