Dr. Jerome Sobel, Marianne Tendon
Filmmaker Fernand Melgar offers a thought-provoking, matter-of-fact meditation on Switzerland's association for the right to die with dignity - which has been active since 1980 and boasts nearly 10,00... read more
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It's not the kind of documentary that leaves you feeling like you've only heard one side of the debate, that certain unsettling truths have been tactically avoided. Full Review
This earnest documentary about assisted suicide plays like a stodgy promotional film for the Swiss organization Exit A.D.M.D., which helps terminally ill patients end their own lives.
[Exit] makes a strong implicit case for a cause supported by a growing number of Americans. Full Review
No one here gets out alive, as Jim Morrison put it before the End, though in Switzerland one at least has the chance of booking a smoother passage from insufferable pain to whatever comes next. Full Review
Even if it were all staged, Exit: The Right to Die would be a profound and moving experience. Full Review
If the film's lack of emotionalism deprives it of dramatic energy, it also forces viewers to react to a highly charged issue intellectually and on the merits, rather than out of manipulated passion. Full Review
For our information, Fernand Melgar's Exit attempts to dispel misconceptions surrounding euthanasia. Full Review
A talky but vivid documentary exhibiting the work ofan organization in Switzerland that helps people die,i.e. assisted suicide. Full Review
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