Claire Simon’s evocative documentary Our Body (Notre corps) is as dense and detailed as it is caring and thought-provoking.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 3, 2024

We stay in intimate spaces that are rarely spoken of in life, let alone documented on film, and become aware of all the critical life-changing events that happen when seeking medical care and how women, especially, are conditioned to keep these a secret.

| Mar 22, 2024

Simon tries to cover all possible spectrums to form, without resorting to sentimentality, an image of the science that's most connected to femininity and life. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 12, 2024

The camera’s gaze isn’t pitiless but there isn’t a scrap of sentimentality – just an unflinching willingness to look at all of life straight on, without blinking.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 5, 2024

Our Body overwhelms the viewer, in a good way...Simon brilliantly provides an intimate, sensitive, and maybe even kind of transcendental understanding of what women (and trans men) and their bodies uniquely go through.

| Mar 1, 2024

[Claire] Simon (The Competition) finished her film while undergoing treatment [for breast cancer], but every story is different, and hers isn't representative. Some patients will get better and some won't.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 13, 2024

There’s an expansive generosity to the film, and to the willingness of its subjects to allow these moments to be documented, that’s met with the same openness from Simon...

| Dec 9, 2023

What begins as a no-holds-barred look at the myriad medical problems faced by women … turns into a sobering look at life itself, when the director becomes a part of the story.

| Nov 4, 2023

The political is found firsthand to be personal, here through an assemblage of intimate vignettes, and thus it becomes all the more impactful when the director joins the ranks, a stand-in for our collective body.

| Sep 15, 2023

With a straightforward approach, the camera records dialogue among doctor, nurse and patient, most often in respectful medium distance shots.

| Sep 7, 2023

At close to three hours in length (168 minutes to be exact), every moment feels absolutely crucial and critical, whether it’s a doctor gently stroking the bird-like hand of a dying patient or a new mother being handed her new baby girl.

| Sep 1, 2023

It is intimate and across its runtime follows the delicate pattern of life itself. As one woman says, “I love cinema.” And despite its modesties, Our Body is a vivid portrayal of it and how the movies can capture life and death in its most profound ways.

| Aug 13, 2023

French director and cinematographer Claire Simon works with a patient, unobtrusive tenderness that seems to echo that of the doctors and nurses she’s filming.

| Aug 11, 2023

While Our Body does primarily show doctors at their best, it resists veering into hagiography.

| Aug 9, 2023

Intimate, illuminating, but ultimately exhausting.

| Aug 5, 2023

The film is not for the squeamish, but why should anyone bristle at the image of women’s bodies in their natural states?

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 4, 2023

Clear-eyed in vision, affirming in message.

| Aug 4, 2023

Simon takes us into the most intimate, terrifying, and sometimes joyful moments faced by the people who come to the hospital.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 4, 2023

Simon’s belief in the interconnectedness yet singularity of the varied patients is palpable. She rewards our patience with a deeper understanding of our bodies and ourselves.

| Aug 3, 2023

"Our Body" is required viewing to understand better the ups and downs of being a woman in this world, and Simon delivers this lesson in the most gentle and beautiful way possible.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 2, 2023