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Praying For Lior (2007/First Run Features DVD)

 

Picture: C    Sound: C+     Extras: C     Film: C

 

 

When you read that many believe a young man with Down Syndrome is “close to God”, the red alert goes immediately into effect.  In Ilana Trachtman’s Praying For Lior (2007), we get a documentary on just that.  The subject has been afflicted since childhood with the condition, yet others still have issues with his condition.  It is quite the disturbing situation to document, but here it is.

 

at 87 minutes, it runs on longer than I expected, does not resolve some key issues and may actually have made the situation more disturbing on some levels than when it started.  That calls for a separate essay, but as the work stands, it leaves too much undealt with and if it were shifted the wrong way, would be an exploitive work.

 

The letterboxed 1.78 X 1 image is very soft, likely from low def digital video, though editing is at least decent.  The Dolby Digital 2.0 sound is simple stereo, but know there are some location recording limits.  Extras include resources, text filmmaker bio, bonus scenes and deleted scenes.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo


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