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Ben Kingsberg covers Raymond Depardon’s documentary 12 DAYS in his “Three Great Documentaries to Stream” column for The New York Times:

“There are moments of heartbreak, horror and even bleak humor…
These interview sessions are interspersed with eerily serene footage of the hospital environs, a device that gives 12 DAYS, like several Depardon works, a kinship with Frederick Wiseman’s films.”

12 Days Directed by Raymond Depardon • Documentary • 2017 • 87 minutes Every year in France, 92,000 people are placed under psychiatric care without their consent. 12 DAYS focuses on those who have been involuntarily remanded to a mental hospital, and more specifically documents the hearings that, acc...