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

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

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

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

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

The “Our” of the title is well earned. Simon films the lives of others with an empathetic passion that transforms observation into deep and resonant subjectivity.

| Aug 2, 2023

Luxuriant in length but never less than compelling...

| Mar 10, 2023

This carefully constructed mosaic lays bare a portrait of empathy, and perhaps without originally intending to, feels profoundly political.

| Feb 25, 2023