{"id":585648,"date":"2023-08-04T19:14:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T16:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/our-body-review-claire-simons-intimate-and-unflinching-look-inside-a-french-gynecology-ward\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T19:14:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T16:14:59","slug":"our-body-review-claire-simons-intimate-and-unflinching-look-inside-a-french-gynecology-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/our-body-review-claire-simons-intimate-and-unflinching-look-inside-a-french-gynecology-ward\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Our Body\u2019 Review: Claire Simon\u2019s Intimate and Unflinching Look Inside a French Gynecology Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2409e34f47d\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2409e34f47d\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/our-body-review-claire-simons-intimate-and-unflinching-look-inside-a-french-gynecology-ward\/#Our_Body\" >Our Body<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The hallways of the hospital in Claire Simon\u2019s unflinching documentary <em>Our Body<\/em> are transient realms. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Masked receptionists gently urge patients to give them one more minute. Couples curl into each other while sitting in sparsely populated waiting areas. Attending physicians bounce between rooms and floors, ardently tailed by residents. When the providers enter these spaces \u2014\u00a0offices, operating rooms, maternity wards and intensive care units \u2014\u00a0a profound drama unfolds between them and their patients.<\/p>\n<div class=\"review-summary-card\">\n<div class=\" lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-a-125 u-background-color-honey-light \">\n<div class=\"lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column u-width-275@tablet u-border-b-1@mobile-max u-border-r-1@tablet u-border-dotted lrv-u-margin-r-150 lrv-u-padding-r-150 lrv-u-margin-r-00@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-r-00@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-b-125@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-b-075@mobile-max\">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  lrv-u-font-family-primary u-font-size-34 u-font-size-38@desktop-xl lrv-u-line-height-small lrv-u-margin-b-125 \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Our_Body\"><\/span>\n<p>                    Our Body        <\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>                    <span class=\"lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-font-family-accent lrv-u-font-weight-bold lrv-u-color-brand-primary lrv-u-font-size-16 lrv-u-display-block\">The Bottom Line<\/span><br \/>\n                    <span class=\"c-span  u-font-size-22@tablet u-font-style-italic lrv-u-font-family-secondary\"><\/p>\n<p>    Clear-eyed in vision, affirming in message.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>                            <strong>Release date:<\/strong> Friday, Aug. 4 (New York), Aug. 11 (Los Angeles)<br \/><strong>Director: <\/strong>Claire Simon<br \/><span><br \/>\n                                2 hours 48 minutes          <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Like a witness to a testimony, Simon absorbs every detail of these encounters. <em>Our Body<\/em>, which premiered at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival, is a stirring testament to the complexities of inhabiting a corporeal form. The film observes mostly women \u2014\u00a0ranging in age, ethnicity, class and medical needs \u2014\u00a0who pass through a public hospital in Paris. They arrive seeking treatment. But thanks to Simon\u2019s keen and uncompromising eye, it\u2019s clear that these patients also come for advice, consolation and hope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The stories in Simon\u2019s doc live in a French context, but the plight of its participants is near universal. In the face of resurgent attacks on bodily autonomy around the world, <em>Our Body <\/em>is an urgent and political project. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Inspiration for the doc came from Simon\u2019s producer, Kristina Larsen, whose battle with an unnamed diseased forced her to become intimate with hospital interiors. Over two years, Larsen noticed that many people \u2014\u00a0whether they came for family planning services, cancer treatment, endometriosis diagnoses or gender transition care \u2014\u00a0passed through the obstetrics and gynecology department. How strange that \u201call these stages on life\u2019s journey,\u201d Simon says at the top of the film, \u201cfrom youth to old age, from beginning to end\u201d can take place within one division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Simon finds a poetic throughline in that fact. <em>Our Body<\/em> is a tapestry of varied experiences organized by the age of the participants. The youngest among them, a teenage girl seeking an abortion, opens the film. She recounts her first sexual experience to a healthcare provider. Their conversation doubles as confession. The young woman textures her story with moral judgements (\u201cI made a mistake,\u201d; \u201cWhat I did was really bad at my age\u201d) and misconceptions about sex and fertility (\u201cI can end up with a malformation or something,\u201d she says of having an abortion). The provider reacts with a quiet, near stoic neutrality. She nods, poses the occasional probing question and gently corrects any inaccuracies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Before the doc moves on to another patient, the provider reminds the teen: \u201cIt\u2019s your story, it\u2019s your experience.\u201d These words echo throughout <em>Our Body<\/em>, which takes seriously the task of presenting the narratives of its subjects. Simon doesn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ear for a long time after her introduction, and that recession has a leveling effect on each subsequent scene, giving the presented stories the same weight. The vignettes flow, some more subtly than others. Conversations about abortion options with young patients lead into meetings with transmasculine patients \u2014\u00a0one on the cusp of transitioning and the other in the process. In the latter of the two visits, a doctor explains his concerns about the patient developing endometriosis. Simon follows their appointment with glimpses of women seeking treatment options for that very disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    In a style similar to Frederick Wiseman, Simon films with purpose and empathy. Her transitions (editing by Luc Forveille) are spare and undramatic, which gives the sense that we, like the physicians and their residents, are making the rounds. This approach helps especially when <em>Our Body<\/em> turns to the maternity ward. These scenes look at motherhood \u2014\u00a0as experienced through IVF and labor \u2014\u00a0with a refreshing sobriety. Simon films natural births and cesarian sections, engaging with the surgical and tactile parts of delivery. Giving birth becomes a drama of mixed emotions (anxiety, excitement, fear and trepidation), fractious relationships between patients and providers, and a stressful race against time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    In <em>Our Body<\/em>, time is a precious commodity. There are seconds in labor, minutes in the waiting room, hours of anticipation and years, so many years, spent in hospitals. When Simon appears again in the film, she has gone from director to patient. A cancer diagnosis warps her relationship to time and deepens her ties to the documentary\u2019s subjects. Simon\u2019s interest in the physical grows more apparent too: Bodies, with their fine lines, liver spots and decreasing elasticity, measure time\u2019s progress. The director closes in on patient\u2019s faces, watching their eyes as they receive favorable or undesirable <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>. Special attention is paid, too, to the boyfriends and husbands, whose protective presence sometimes feels closer to a threat. She zooms in on the attending physicians, training viewers to look more closely at the body language of the male doctors who speak to their mostly female patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Another motif emerges from all this looking. <em>Our Body<\/em> shows that all bodies in a hospital are ensnared in a subtle warfare. There\u2019s a tension to delivering bleak diagnoses, grief in disappointing news, anger at not feeling heard. When Simon shows a demonstration led by women protesting the stark power imbalance between female patients and healthcare practitioners, the political stakes of her project become clearer. Hospitals are fraught spaces and their halls are respites from the push-pull between caregivers and their charges, between the realities of diagnoses and the hopes of treatment, between salvation and death. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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