My Beautiful Broken Brain review - moving study of life after stroke

This study of a young stroke patient’s struggle to regain language and memory manages to be at once visually arresting, deeply moving and upliftingMy Beautiful Broken Brain is the story of stroke patient Lotje Sodderland. Sodderland suffered a catastrophic brain haemorrhage in 2011 at the age of 34; eight days later she contacted filmmaker Sophie Robinson to ask her to help document the aftermath. The pair initially filmed 150 hours of footage, most of it self-shot by Sodderland on her iPhone, which was edited to create this documentary piecing together Sodderland’s recovery. Related: 'I felt as if I had become fear itself': life after a stroke at 34 Continue reading...
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