12 Days

3.00
    12 Days
    2017

    Synopsis

    A new documentary by filmmaker-photographer Raymond Depardon – where justice and psychiatry meet.

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      • 90

        The Hollywood Reporter

        By keeping the camera focused on the faces of patients and judges alike, Depardon — working again with sound recordist and producer Claudine Nougaret — reveals shreds of humanity, and even moments of hilarity, in these closed-door sessions.
      • 80

        Village Voice

        At times unbearably intimate, even invasive, the photographer-documentarian Raymond Depardon’s 12 Days is the kind of film you might wonder, as you watch, whether you should be watching. I’m glad I did, and I can’t discount the empathy that this study of mental illness and bureaucratic practice stirs or the understanding it crystallizes.
      • 80

        The New York Times

        [A] lucid, focused and adamant documentary.
      • 80

        Screen Daily

        None of the interactions come across as a sham or an empty formality. Patients are treated with respect, at least in the hearings room.... There’s also genuine and inadvertent humor in the midst of sadness and administrative formalities.
      • 80

        The Guardian

        It’s a quietly devastating film.
      • 75

        Slant Magazine

        With a tender and respectful gaze, 12 DAYS (@distribfilmsus) sheds light on the relationship between the French state and the mentally ill.

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