2023 Movie
Dir. Luke Lorentzen · United States of America · English
A difficult but important watch that follows the brave souls tasked to accompany a person’s final hours on Earth
A Still Small Voice is very hard to watch, but essential if you want to learn how to assuage grief. It’s also comforting if you’re going through it yourself. We follow chaplains as they hold the hands of patients, comfort the bereaved, and offer relief to fellow healthcare workers. But as much as the film centers on the superhuman compassion these chaplains offer, it also shines a light on how taxing the job can get. We see them perenially exhausted but, still, endlessly giving with their time and generosity. One in particular, Margaret, is troubled by this conflict: how do you set a boundary for yourself when the person you’re speaking to could die in an instant? How do you prevent yourself from being consumed with guilt? A Still Small Voice employs a fly-on-the-wall approach, but it’s still sensitively (if impartially) told.
An aspiring hospital chaplain begins a yearlong residency in spiritual care, only to discover that to successfully tend to her patients, she must look deep within herself.
"A raw and lucid observational documentary about people whose life’s work is making space for death."
— David Ehrlich
"A tender portrait of an underseen group among a hospital’s many departments."
— Monica Castillo
Closely follows the chaplains of Mt. Sinai Hospital as they counsel and comfort those afflicted with unspeakable illnesses and grief.
The fortitude of the caretakers.
Chaplaining has to be the most emotionally draining job in the world, rivaled only, perhaps, by teaching.
Sundance
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Renee Cuisia is the lead curator at A Good Movie to Watch. In her spare time, she likes to watch K-dramas and analyze them to death. She's also seen You've Got Mail one too many times but is still convinced it's one of the greatest films out there.
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