Hospital
- sombre
- measured
Sombre, measured, measured documentary, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Daily activities of the Metropolitan Hospital in New York City, with emphasis on the emergency ward and outpatient clinics. The cases depicted illustrate how medical expertise, availability of resources, organizational considerations and the nature of communication among the staff and patients affect the delivery of health care.
Our read · Hospital (1970) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded documentary entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Hospital
What watching it is actually like.
“You want raw fly-on-wall documentary inside a 1970s NYC public hospital.”
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The reading.
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