We just wanted to share with you our wonderful collection of quotes and reviews about the film so far:
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"It is the best documentary of the year so far, and will undoubtedly remain so. I Am Breathing is a truly remarkable piece. Outstanding. "
The Upcoming
"ranks among the year's most moving films"
The Hollywood Reporter (full review)
"an intensely personal documentary [...] It is a film about life"
Dominic Lawson, The Independent (full article)
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"its emotional heart is extraordinary"
The Times (also online for subscribers)
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"A deeply affecting glimpse of a man's quest to salvage beauty from tragedy."
Empire (also online)
"bleak, unflinching and moving, yet morbidly funny"
The Telegraph (long feature in the Telegraph Magazine, also online)
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"Profoundly moving [...] The film is not only a tribute to Neil Platt, it is also his legacy, one that touches and teaches all of us"
Jennifer Merin, About.com (full review)
"Genuinely powerful film-making [...] an intimate portrait of heartbreaking courage - a haunting and inclusive encounter with [...] time, experience and mortality."
Trevor Johnston, Sight & Sound (also online for subscribers)
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"profoundly resonant [...] curiously life-affirming"
RTE (full review)
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"a genuine heartbreaker"
Alison Rowat, The Herald (also online)
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"absurd humour and profound beauty amidst the sadness"
Chris Buckle, The Skinny (full review)
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"like a tactical nuclear strike on my soul"
London City Lights
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"a heartbreaker of a film"
Daily Express (also online)
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"Ill-achieved fiction is, this week, shamed by well-achieved non-fiction. I Am Breathing is a tragic, insightful, harrowing documentary."
Nigel Andrews, Financial Times (also online)
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"remarkable"
Grant Rollings, The Sun (article online for subscribers)
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"at once devastating and deeply moving"
Miles Fielder, The List (full review)
"Inspiring documentary [...] celebrating the power of the human spirit to endure."
Time Out (London)
"a poignant movie which captures [...] stoic wit"
The Sun
"this film might change your life"
Shortlist
"delicate - heartbreaking - inspiring"
NOW Magazine
"Top 10 films of 2012"
Filmkommentaren.dk
"a film to watch in 2013"
Indiewire










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