"A work of purest corporeal poetry."—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
"One of the supreme cinematic examinations of the body’s magnificent malleability."—Keith Watson, Slant Magazine
"Tests our levels of comfort in accepting we are essentially all decaying entities made of organic material."—Carlos Aguilar, The Playlist
Five centuries ago, anatomist André Vésale opened up the human body to science for the first time in history. Today, directors Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel (Leviathan) open the human body to the cinema, revealing human flesh as an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others. As places of care, suffering and hope, hospitals are laboratories that connect every body in the world.