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Death Watch

She's the target of every eye… including eyes only science could create.

1980 · 2h 11m · R Drama, Science Fiction
Directed by Bertrand Tavernier

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In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the crude spectacle of death, the rare case of a dying woman becomes the morbid theme of a revolutionary reality show, broadcast through the curious eyes of a peculiar camera.

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While it may be conceptually rooted in science fiction, 'Death Watch' is essentially melodramatic in tone and execution: it was shot in late '70s Glasgow with not a shiny jumpsuit or flying car in sight.

Tom Huddleston, Time Out

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