Rough Aunties

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06/24/2017 Extremely eye opening and powerful. See more Mike M 08/05/2010 If you're taken aback by the extent of access Longinotto has been granted - to staff meetings, still-bloody crime scenes and deeply personal (not to mention, in the context of these children's development, *crucial*) counselling sessions - you're swiftly reassured by the methods employed that she's the ideal filmmaker for this particular milieu. A good, patient listener, holding her camera on her subjects' faces and never once letting herself (or us) get distracted, she's also every bit as empowering an optimist as the Aunties themselves prove to be, as the final ten minutes, a celluloid suffused with love, demonstrate beyond all doubt. It's a modestly miraculous documentary, both seeing and showing how, even in the most painful and unthinkable of circumstances, it is still possible to make a difference. See more 12/04/2009 These women are real-world heroes. The film as such is less than perfect (a bit disjointed in places as it leaps from the horrific to the merely tragic with too much ease) but the story it tells is both harrowing and deeply uplifting, all the more so for being true. See more 08/01/2009 The best doco I've seen in a long time. It introduces us to a wonderful bunch of superwomen who spend their time working to improve the lives of the most powerless in their community - and not through simple charity, but through support and empowerment - and do so always with love in their hearts. This film is equally heartbreaking and uplifting and I (and my fellow viewers) didn't want it to end. N.B. I don't give 5 stars. Well, I didn't, until now. See more Read all reviews

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