Claire Simon Documentary ‘Our Body’ Acquired By Cinema Guild
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has nabbed North American rights to the feature doc Our Body directed by Venice prize winner Claire Simon (The Competition), which premiered to critical acclaim at last month’s Berlin Film Festival before touching down stateside at MoMA’s Doc Fortnight as well as True/False.
Pic is slated for release in theaters later this year. Simon looks, with Our Body, at the everyday operations of the gynecological ward in a public hospital in Paris.
In the process, she questions what it means to live in a woman’s body, filming the diversity, singularity and beauty of patients in all stages of life.
We see cancer screenings and fertility appointments, a teenager dealing with an unwanted pregnancy, a trans woman considering the beginnings of menopause.
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