Movie: Emma Wants to Live

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    This is a Dutch documentary about the last weeks of life in a Portuguese clinic for Emma Caris, a 18 year old girl who had been suffering anorexia nervosa since she was 16 years old.

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    2016-11-22

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    8.7

  • Rating:

    4.3 starts
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