I Am Breathing

Name: I Am Breathing
Genre: Biography, Documentary
Released: September 6, 2013
Duration: 72 min
Rating: 71

2013

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| Release Date: September 6, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: A documentary follows the last months of Neil Platt, a young father with terminal and debilitating motor neuron disease.

Director: Emma Davie and Morag McKinnon

Genre(s): Biography, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 72 min

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The Playlist Christopher Schobert

Sep 6, 2013

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. Read full review

Neil Young

Sep 11, 2013

The last couple of years in one tragically truncated life are chronicled with a winning combination of sensitivity and humor in I Am Breathing. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Scott Jordan Harris

Sep 6, 2013

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. Read full review

Nicolas Rapold

Sep 6, 2013

Mr. Platt’s good-humored attitude helps keep the potent material from turning mawkish, and having his perspective also wards off a sense of exploitive voyeurism. Read full review

Eddie Cockrell

Sep 19, 2013

Not so much harrowing as achingly reflective. Read full review

Annlee Ellingson

Sep 12, 2013

"Breathing" takes its humorous, contemplative tonal cues from Neil himself. Read full review

Andrew Schenker

Sep 4, 2013

Emma Davie and Morag McKinnon’s doc walks the line between a deathwatch film and an uplifting one, rather than simply rubbing the viewer’s nose in the horror of mortality. Read full review

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