Sicko: Cannes Film Festival Reviews
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Sicko is filmmaker Michael Moore's newest documentary. Sicko takes a critical look at what is wrong with the US health care and health insurance industry and is currently being reviewed by film critics and global press attending the 60th annual Cannes Film Festival.
The first reviews of the world premiere of Michael Moore's new documentary Sicko at the Cannes Film Festival reflect the fairly predictable long-standing love-hate relationship the media and public have for this filmmaker and his previous documentaries Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11.
The critical reviews are mostly positive. The comments from readers to the various critical reviews and more specific in regard to Moore himself, are both a supportive and scathing mixture of opinion.
Wrapped in irony, Moore-esque stunts and statistical facts, Sicko is a look at pharmaceutical companies, private healthcare insurance coverage, and HMOs in the inequities of the US healthcare system.
The general public will need to wait to see the movie until June 29, when Sicko is set to open in theaters nationwide. Not surprisingly, given the subject matter and the glaring problems facing US citizens in healthcare and health insurance coverage, the conversations have already begun.
Following are initial reviews from film critics and special guests who are getting an advance screening of Sicko:
Bloomberg News film critic Farah Nayeri gives his take in Michael Moore's Sicko Slams U.S. Health System; Cannes Claps.
At Variety VFilm Alissa Simon shares her impressions in Sicko.
Lee Marshall at Screen Daily writes his review in Cannes Film Festival: 60 Years Of Film: Sicko.
Jeffrey Kluger at Time interviews Moore about Sicko in Michael Moore Gets Ready to Rumble.
Kirk Honeycutt at The Hollywood Reporter details Moore's documentary in Sicko.
To read what Michael Moore has to say about his new documentary Sicko, visit the ever-controversial Moore at his website.
According to Health Care By The Numbers Rising Momentum for Reform:
- 90 percent of Americans believe the U.S. health care system needs either fundamental changes or a complete overhaul, according to a February 2007 CBS News/New York Times poll.
- 64 percent of Americans say it should be the federal government’s responsibility to guarantee health insurance for everyone, according to a February 2007 CBS/New York Times poll.
- 55 percent of Americans say that guaranteeing health insurance for all Americans is the top domestic policy issue, ranking far higher than immigration or cutting taxes, according to a March 2007 CBS/New York Times poll.
Related Page: Health Insurance: Working To Make A Change
Portions of this article first published at It's A Boomer Life.
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Hal, have you actually seen the movie. The trip to Cuba was a very small part of the movie. I'm sure Moore would agree that Cuba has a "horrific human rights record." However, Cuba, a very poor country, has a health care record better in some respects than that of the United States. So do 37 other countries. Moore takes viewers on visits to health care facilities in Canads, France and England all of which have health care superior to that in the United States. Of course the purpose of the trip to Guantanamo and Cuba at the end was a stunt designed to hype the movie. And it succeeded. The main point, i.e. that the American for-profit system is broken was already made long before the trip to Cuba at the very end. One of the points I found most telling was Moore's pointing out the fact that education, fire and police protection are all provided by government employees. So, why not health care? (As in every other advanced industrial country in the world.)
Great hub, Dalene!!
Hal Licino says:
2 years ago
Unfortunately, I have to align myself with the Moore detractors. Cuba has been a repressionist communist regime for decades with a horrific human rights record. IMHO Moore brought Americans there for medical treatment not for any humanitarian reasons, but to ca$h in at the box office once the uproar provided millions of dollars of free publicity.