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Breastmilk

2014 · 1h 25m · N/A Documentary, Drama
Directed by Dana Ben-Ari

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Overview

Pregnant bodies are easier for society to accommodate. What follows birth is a different, messier story. Through new and honest ways, with a wide range of frank, difficult, revealing interviews, BREAST MILK follows the lives of breastfeeding women and addresses the many questions around breast milk.

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Rotten

Breastmilk takes all of its testimonials at their dry word, leaving one to marvel at how much theoretical distance can come even between a baby and its mother.

Geoff Pevere, Globe and Mail
Fresh

Audiences will find themselves face to face with their own prejudices, assumptions and, perhaps, squeamishness.

Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times
Fresh

Dana Ben-Ari's gently affecting and insightful documentary achieves a remarkable intimacy with its subjects.

Justin Chang, Variety
Rotten

Images of newborns fumbling to feed bear witness to its importance. But the film's myopic style limits its impact.

Miriam Bale, New York Daily News
Fresh

Variously confronting sexual and financial worries, lack of maternity leave and performance anxiety, the women transform a seemingly simple act of mothering into a complex diary of daily challenges.

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

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