If you loved Chicken with Plums, try Patients

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Chicken with Plums

2011 · dir. Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi

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Patients

2017 · dir. Grand Corps Malade, Mehdi Idir

What they share

Theysit in Comedy / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Chicken with Plums, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Patients is

Here's a film that really wants you to know what it's like in a rehab center. Newly quadriplegic Ben meets other patients as they grapple with the physical and emotional challenges of their injuries. Hope and friendship get a workout, as required.

If you loved Chicken with Plums, try Patients

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What they share

What Patients is

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