12 Days
A judge, bound by French law, conducts mandatory hearings for each patient placed under psychiatric hospitalization within twelve days. The camera remains fixed in a small room where lives intersect: the bewildered eyes of patients, the judge's monotonous questions, the quiet interjections of lawyers and doctors. Each encounter is a brief, piercing collision of human suffering and legal machinery—a search for equilibrium between personal liberty and medical necessity, where freedom and care hang in the balance.
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| Original Title | 12 jours |
| Year | 2017 |
| Country | France |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Director | Raymond Depardon |
| Runtime | 87 min. |
| Rating | TMDB: 7.1/10 (54 votes) |
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Raymond Depardon films with a near-clinical detachment, forgoing music or narration, which only amplifies the emotional weight. The frame is static, yet within this stillness pulses the drama of a decision that will alter a life irrevocably.
What lingers after viewing is the profound silence of the courtroom, a space where bureaucracy and humanity intersect with unsettling clarity. A masterful exercise in restrained observation — MovieFinder Editorial
Director: Raymond Depardon
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A stark administrative room, the ticking clock, heavy pauses between legal formulae.
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