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I Am Breathing
Directed by
Morag McKinnon
,
Emma Davie
2013
72m
Documentary
,
Biography
7.2
92%
82%
7.0
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A documentary follows the last months of Neil Platt, a young father with terminal and debilitating motor neuron disease (MND).
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Cast of I Am Breathing
Neil Platt
Himself
Louise Platt
Oscar Platt
Lynne Platt
Morag McKinnon
Director
Emma Davie
Director / Director Of Photography
Sonja Henrici
Producer
Sigrid Dyekjær
Co-Producer
Peter Winther
Editor
I Am Breathing Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
Because directors Emma Davie (Platt's widow) and Morag McKinnon spend little time explaining his medical condition, the video doesn't function as a case study.
Variety
Eddie Cockrell
Emma Davie and Morag McKinnon deliver an achingly reflective look at the life of a man struggling with ALS.
Los Angeles Times
Annlee Ellingson
Part impressionistic abstract of his day-to-day experience merging with idyllic memories, part letter to his toddler son Oscar, "Breathing" takes its humorous, contemplative tonal cues from Neil himself ...
RogerEbert.com
Scott Jordan Harris
"I Am Breathing" is an earnest and important film. It deserves to be seen by anyone who is interested in documentaries and anyone who is interested in the simple human stories movies too often overlook.
Village Voice
Ernest Hardy
Platt and his story are inherently moving, and co-directors Emma Davie and Morag McKinnon wisely employ a light, unobtrusive touch as their camera captures the erosion of Platt's health.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Heartbreaking and profound. You'll be balling your eyes out, unless you're made of stone.
New York Times
Nicolas Rapold
A film that, amid cinema's hit parade of violent but curiously instantaneous deaths, reminds us what it means to bear witness to the very end.
The Playlist
Christopher Schobert
...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.
Spirituality & Practice
Mary Ann Brussat
A moving portrait of a courageous young man with Lou Gehrig's Disease who seeks to make his death fruitful to others.
Eye for Film
Jennie Kermode
Neil's insistence on telling his own story with his own voice, on getting that voice out there for the rest of the world to listen to, is itself a fierce act, evidence of a rare vitality.
Compuserve
Harvey S. Karten
A sober, conventionally told doc about a man who is dying of Motor Neurone Disease, known as Lou Gehrig's disease in the U.S.
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