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Our Body (2023)
8/10
Worthwhile Documentary to Watch
29 March 2024
This was a really great documentary of health care workers and their patients in a gynecology hospital during Covid as they dealt with abortion, gender transition, help with pregnancy, IVF, natural childbirth, cesarian birth of twins, ovarian cancer, breast cancer, and menopause, among other things.

The part about IVF was particularly enlightening to me, and the births were very emotional, as was the last segment in the film about a different subject.

Several doctors are followed through multiple patients, and at the end of the film the narration expounds that each patient has only one story, omitting the fact that each doctor and nurse has multiple patients day after day, making them true heroes.

Available now (March 2024) on CriterionChannel, I recommend this highly.
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Tristan & Isolde (1998 TV Movie)
10/10
Beautiful singing, beautiful orchestration, high quality video
15 March 2003
This is a modern interpretation of Tristan and Isolde. Some poeple might not like the modern sets and slight changes to the standard story line. But the music is beautifully performed and captured with high quality. The video is well done, with many closeups and interesting shots. There are absolutely no extras on the DVD; only the performance with subtitles, which is a bit disappointing since there is an hour of free space on the second DVD that they could have used for something, but this is a minor complaint. This is a superb performance, and I highly recommend it.
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3/10
Very slow, repetative and boring
1 December 2002
I'm a fan of Mahler's music and expected to enjoy this movie for that fact alone, even if the plot was not to my liking or the music was poorly played. Wow was I ever in for a surprise! The plot was nearly non-existant and its barely-there-story was told so extremely slowly that the movie bored me to death. And the music was simply the Adagietto movement from Mahler's fifth symphony played over and over and over and over and over and over....

Make sure to set your sleep timer on this one or your TV might be eating electrcity all night long while you snore away.
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