Dying
United States • 1976 • 1h 22m
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Synopsis
This documentary, made for public television, is an extraordinary, deeply affecting confrontation with that from which we so often try to look away: our own mortality. Through unflinching, vérité portraits of three terminally ill people—a middle-aged woman with brain cancer being cared for by her elderly mother; a husband and father dying of melanoma whose wife worries about a future without him; and a cancer-stricken reverend reflecting on his life—director Michael Roemer asks us to consider our relationship to death and what it means to go on living in the face of it.
Synopsis
This documentary, made for public television, is an extraordinary, deeply affecting confrontation with that from which we so often try to look away: our own mortality. Through unflinching, vérité portraits of three terminally ill people—a middle-aged woman with brain cancer being cared for by her elderly mother; a husband and father dying of melanoma whose wife worries about a future without him; and a cancer-stricken reverend reflecting on his life—director Michael Roemer asks us to consider our relationship to death and what it means to go on living in the face of it.
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DirectorMichael Roemer