The unbearable heaviness of things.
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Documentary-maker Judith Helfand puts herself front and center once again with this sort of sequel to 'A Healthy Baby Girl' and 'Blue Vinyl.'
New York City-based filmmaker Judith Helfand broke through as a filmmaker in 1997 with a highly personal documentary,
A Healthy Baby Girl. This multilayered essay on maternity, medical negligence and guilt, among many other things, explored how her mother Florence's use of a drug to prevent miscarriage led to Judith having first cervical cancer and then a radical hysterectomy in her twenties.
After several more films, such as similarly personal feature