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This documentary investigates the little-known activities that occur when someone dies, but leaves no next of kin behind to pick up the pieces. The process is endlessly fascinating, and filmmakers Grover Babcock and Blue Hadaegh follow it in intricate detail. Making sure they maintain a respectful distance from their deceased subjects, Babcock and Hadaegh show what happens to property, personal artefacts, and the body of these people. This allows the directors to offer some profound musings on the nature of death and loneliness, adding a moving subtext to A CERTAIN KIND OF DEATH that marks it out as a very special piece of work.

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UPC0720917318622

eBay Product ID (ePID)45655586

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RatingNR

Movie/TV TitleCertain Kind of Death

DirectorBlue Hadaegh, Grover Babcock

FormatDVD

Release Year2005

GenreMusical & Performing Arts

Sub-GenreMedia Arts

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Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureUSA

Film CountryUSA

Release Date20050322

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by noisicianew
06 May, 2022
Possibly the finest documentary ever made!
I have seen no other movie with a similar tone. At a matter-of-fact pace & without moral or any type of judgement one is walked through the legal, on the ground process of dealing with Angelenos who have died with no known next-of-kin. I did not think that Cinéma Vérité this pure could exist. Of course it will be ignored... seen as boring, because the vast majority of people view movies as simple, thoughtless escapes, This film is not spectacle. It does not pull on one's heart strings. It is dispassionate in all the best meanings of the word. It has the depth of dreams. No praise I can give will do it justice.
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