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Here and Now

2018 · AMBI · Theatrical/VOD

FAIL

Summary

Singer Vivienne receives a terminal cancer diagnosis and spends a day moving through New York City. Her encounters with friends, strangers, and her own past shape the film's one-day reckoning.

Why it fails

Are they allowed to live?

The one-day terminal reckoning structure aestheticizes mortality.

Does the medical reality hold up?

The diagnosis/timeline is highly compressed around one day.