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Embrace
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In this documentary, body image activist Taryn Brumfitt explores the global issue of body loathing, associated negative stereotypes and what women can do to improve their physical and mental well-being.
In this documentary, body image activist Taryn Brumfitt explores the global issue of body loathing, associated negative stereotypes and what women can do to improve their physical and mental well-being.
Actors:
Amanda De Cadenet,
Ricki Lake,
Nora Tschirner,
Taryn Brumfitt
Amanda De Cadenet
19 May 1972, England, UK
Ricki Lake
21 September 1968, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Nora Tschirner
June 12, 1981 in East Berlin, East Germany
Taryn Brumfitt
Genre:
Documentary
Director:
Taryn Brumfitt
Taryn Brumfitt
Country:
United States, Euro, United Kingdom
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August 04, 2016
A highly accessible and refreshingly honest Australian-made documentary, Embrace is transmitting a valuable message all women should be hearing loud and clear.August 04, 2016
Embrace is the kind of informative, helpful film mothers might want to take their young daughters to see, and teachers might want to show their students.August 01, 2016
Embrace is very important viewing for, literally, everyone.August 03, 2016
A film that is at points torn between the documentary filmmaking tradition and launching a hashtag-ready movement.August 04, 2016
As a piece of storytelling, Embrace is similarly intimate and idiosyncratic. And that's what makes it so accessible.September 01, 2016
For many, she won't be saying or offering up anything new, but what Brumfitt is doing, without the gimmickry of say That Sugar Film or Super Size Me, is highlighting how global the problem of body shaming and self-loathing has become.July 30, 2016
Embrace is an uplifting and engaging film with plenty of guts, setting out the social parameters that constrain women of almost all ages by impossible, self imposed criteria. Good on herAugust 05, 2016
At 90 minutes, the film is too long, but it is never dull, partly because it's edited with pace and humour.August 05, 2016
Taryn Brumfitt made the Australian documentary feature Embrace with the avowed aim of persuading women to be positive about their bodies.January 12, 2017
It has an indisputably worthy message, and should be essential viewing for young people.