A uniquely delicate and moving road movie, Barking Water uses the weathered and beautiful backdrop of rural Oklahoma to tell the story of Frankie (Richard Ray Whitman), a proud Native American attempting to reconnect with his estranged family. Released from the hospital, but still very ill, he hits the road with his ex-lover Irene (Casey Camp-Horinek), who acts as Frankie’s nurse but refuses to offer forgiveness for his past indiscretions. But the journey really begins as they travel through the sun-dappled Oklahoman country to reunite with his daughter and grandchild, encountering various eccentric personalities, from motor-mouthed nephews to a philosophical pot-smoking loner, along the way.
With its nuanced vision of Native American life, its rich, pastoral cinematography, and the deeply felt performances of Whitman and Camp-Horinek, director Sterlin Harjo has created a film that cements his place as one of the vital voices in American Independent cinema today.
Robert Frank’s The Americans (1958) transformed the landscape of contemporary photography. An exile from Europe, Frank criss-crossed the United States with his camera, searching for the uncomfortable truths of his adopted home. The resulting book was the defining work of photographic art in the 20th century. Fifty years later, French director Philippe Séclier decided to follow in his footsteps, retracing his path step by step. He explores the spirit of the “Beat Generation” by examining the impact of Frank’s book, not only on the art of photography, but also on American culture. He tracks down the subjects of the photos, while also eliciting thoughts and comments from painter Ed Ruscha, photographer Raymond Depardon, and a series of leading historians and curators. From Texas to Montana, from Nebraska to Louisiana, from New York to San Francisco, An American Journey is a 15,000 mile odyssey through contemporary America, moving between past and present, photography and cinema - beautifully capturing the wandering spirit of Robert Frank’s legendary journey.
“Mr. Séclier’s subject is a book that inspires as much passion in some circles as any religious tract.” -The New York Times
“CRITICS’ PICK! Says something profound about the way art can both reflect and shape its world.”
– Miranda Siegel, New York Magazine
Alan Berliner’s uncanny ability to combine experimental cinema, artistic purpose, and popular appeal in compelling film essays has made him one of America’s most acclaimed independent filmmakers. The New York Times has described Berliner’s work as “powerful, compelling and bittersweet… full of juicy conflict and contradiction, innovative in their cinematic technique, unpredictable in their structures… Alan Berliner illustrates the power of fine art to transform life.”
The Family Album is a one-hour experimental documentary film utilizing a vast collection of rare 16mm home movies from the 1920s through the 1950s, that weaves into a composite lifetime, passing through the celebrations and struggles from childhood to adulthood, from innocence to experience. It is a universal yet intimate portrait of the American family, not scripted, not rehearsed, not immune to the conflicts and contradictions underlying family life and its rituals.
Intimate Stranger is a poetic and emotional jigsaw puzzle carved out of the voluminous memorabilia of his grandfather’s life story. Family members try to make sense of it all in this witty, candid and cinematically inventive documentary biography. In Nobody’s Business, Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant and graceful study of family history and memory.
In Nobody’s Business, Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant and graceful study of family history and memory. What emerges is a uniquely cinematic biography that finds both humor and pathos in the swirl of conflicts and affections that bind father and son. Ultimately this complex portrait is a meeting of the minds - where the past meets the present, where generations collide, and where the boundaries of family life are pushed, pulled, stretched, torn and surprisingly at times, also healed.
In The Sweetest Sound, Alan Berliner (the filmmaker from New York) is tired of being mistaken for people who might share his name and decideds to rid himself of the dreaded Same Name Syndrome. His solution: invite all the Alan Berliners in the world over to his house for dinner. In the end Berliner leaves us with a greater sense of the power and magic embedded in a name, and how all of our identities are inescapably shaped by what we call ourselves.
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The Alan Berliner Collection - The Family Album, Intimate Stranger, Nobody’s Business and The Sweetest Sound: $799.00
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Intimate Stranger: $249.00
Nobody’s Business: $249.00
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Nobody’s Business: $129.00
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After learning of a former infantry mate’s attempted suicide, journalist Esteban (Gaston Pauls) returns to the Falkland Islands (or as they are known in Argentina, the Malvinas) to confront the horrors he experienced as an eighteen year-old soldier. This epic film, directed by Tristan Bauer, presents the harrowing story of a group of young men sent to fight an un-winnable war and left to bear its emotional scars.
Art of Faith is a visually sumptuous series revealing outstanding examples of the art and architecture of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The films bring to life many of the greatest and most significant religious buildings through stunning photography and interviews with the people who know and love them.
The programs are filmed in twenty-seven key locations in eighteen countries, from Russia to the USA, India to Egupt, and the UK to Hungary. The architecture and art of each building is explored by rabbis, priests and imams, as well as congregation members and art historians, who explain the history of these sacred places and, in many cases, their importance today as places of lived faith.
Art of Faith enables viewers to enter into the lives of these people and gain a deeper understanding of the three Abrahamic faith traditions as well as the history and art of these great and glorious buildings.
Featured Locations for Judaism
Synagogue, Masada • Old-New Synagogue, Prague • Synagogues, Toledo • Bevis Marks Synagogue, London
Dohany Street Synagogue, Budapest • Princes Road Synagogue, Liverpool • Central Synagogue, New York
Agoudas Hakehilos Synagogue, Paris • Beth Sholom Synagogue, Philadelphia
Featured Locations for Christianity
St. Catherine’s Monastery, Mount Sinai • Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna • Durham Cathedral
Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres • St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol • St. Peter’s Bascilica, Vatican City
Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed, Moscow • Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary, Vence
Chapel of St. Ignatius, Seattle
Featured Locations for Islam
Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem • Great Mosque, Kairouan • Mezquita, Cordoba
Sultan Ahmed Mosque, Istanbul • Registan, Samarkand • Taj Mahal, Agra
Shah Jahan Mosque, Woking • Assyafaah Mosque, Singapore • Brick Lane Jamme Mosjid, London
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Art in Faith is a series broken down into three sections Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Within each segment are nine chapters, each on a significant work of architecture within that faith. From the famous St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City to the Taj Mahal and from the earliest Synagogue at Masada built as a winter palace by King Herod, who ruled from 37 BCE to 4 BCE to the modern work of Steven Holl from 1994 to 1997 on the Chapel of St. Ignatius in Seattle, these as some of the most amazing and most significant religious buildings in the world. “Divine in form, sacred in function. Holy buildings are among the most beautiful and the most enduring achievements of mankind. They are also the most prominent symbols of faith.” They also include works from some famous architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Matisse.
“How have the passions and complexities of a religious belief been expressed in architecture? How have the most abstract mysteries been given the most concrete shapes? How over the past two thousand years have we celebrated the art of faith?” This film takes us through the history, culture and evolution of these incredible buildings. While John McCarthy, a broadcaster, narrates throughout the entire series, each segment also includes narration from those individuals most familiar with each site. We follow them as they take us on through the history of each place and the artworks included in each one. Each one just blows your breath away at its amazing beauty and sacredness that is conveyed within those walls and within those that worship there today. “Those we’ve selected are beautiful, moving and inspiring. What do each of these special places reveal about those who built them and those who created exceptional artworks for them? What feelings do they prompt in those that work and worship there now? And how do these extraordinary buildings both shape and respond to the faith that is affirmed within them every day?”
Filmed in high definition that allows the beauty of each site to just flow onto the screen. The film has offers detailed histories and insightful looks into these grand buildings. It is paced well, is engaging and engrossing with a philosophical and magical tone. Illuminations and Sky Arts did a great job of researching each site and including both animation and beautiful cinematography to captures and entrances the audience. An amazing work of art in and of itself, this is not one to be missed and will benefit every academic and public library as it follows the history of these faiths, their artworks and the timeless places of worship that each has created.
Video Librarian Review March/April 2010
Rating: 3 out of 4 Stars - Recommended!
The great monotheistic religions’ historically important places of worship are spotlighted in this three-part 2008 series from British Sky Broadcasting that was filmed in 27 locations in 18 countries. The nine Christian structures featured include such obvious choices as St. Peter’s in Rome and St. Basil’s in Moscow, but also the ancient monastery of St. Catherine’s on Mount Sinai and the medieval cathedral in Chartres. The episode on Jewish synagogues begins with the archeological reconstruction of the assembly room in the mountain-top fortress of Masada that was the last redoubt of the rebels against Rome in A.D. 73 and continues with eight temples in Europe and America. The segment on Islam proceeds from the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem through mosques in Asia and Europe, including the Taj Mahal, the Mezquita in Corboda (converted into a Christian church), and the Hagia Sophia (now a museum) and other sites in Istanbul. The photography is excellent, while the commentary—mostly by building curators but with occasional remarks from congregants, archeologists, and art historians—is both clear and engaging. The inclusion of some modern examples—Matisse’s Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary in Venice, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Beth Sholom Synagogue in Philadelphia, the Assyafaah Mosque in Singapore—shows how innovative designs can serve traditional purposes. Because of the number of sites, these are thumbnail sketches rather than thorough treatments; but as a whole, Art of Faith beautifully demonstrates the many ways in which the religious impulse can be expressed in stone and decoration. Recommended. Aud: C, P. (F. Swietek)
From renowned filmmaker Amy Greenfield, this critically acclaimed modern adaptation of Sophocles’ classic tragedy combines dance and narrative to tell the story of Antigone, who risks her own life to arrange the burial of her brother Polyneices. The treachery surrounding his death and the threatening behavior of King Creon provide the drama that motivates this daring interpretation of the classic story. Bonus material includes an extensive interview with Classics scholar Dr. Marianne McDonald.
The Golden Gate Bridge is an iconic structure. An engineering masterpiece. A triumph of human ingenuity and muscle over the elements. A symbol of San Francisco, the West, freedom – and something more, something almost spiritual but impossible to describe.
More people choose to end their lives at the Golden Gate Bridge than anywhere else in the world. The sheer number of deaths there is shocking but perhaps not altogether surprising. If one wants to commit suicide, that is, there is an eerie logic in selecting a means that is almost always fatal and a place that is magically, mysteriously beautiful.
The director and crew spent all of 2004, an entire year, looking very carefully at the Golden Gate Bridge, running cameras for almost every daylight minute, and filming most of the two dozen suicides and a great many of the unrealized attempts. In addition, the director captured nearly 100 hours of incredibly frank, deeply personal, often heart-wrenching interviews with the families and friends of these suicides, with witnesses who were walking, biking, or driving across the bridge, or surfing, kiteboarding, or boating underneath it, and with several of the attempters themselves.
THE BRIDGE offers glimpses into the darkest, and possibly most impenetrable corners of the human mind. The fates of the 24 people who died at the Golden Gate Bridge in 2004 are linked together by a 4 second fall, but their lives had been moving on parallel tracks and similar arcs all along.
Looming behind these stories is the Golden Gate Bridge itself, a monument that mirrors our highest aspirations and our lowest natures. We are uncomfortable with the grim realities suicide forces us to confront. We’d rather not see the mentally ill; we’d prefer suicides to be invisible — or at least to take place quietly in hotel bathrooms, barns, dorm rooms and closets.
THE BRIDGE is a visual and visceral journey into one of life’s gravest taboos.
“One of the most moving and brutally honest films about suicide ever made…
remarkably free of religious cant and of cozy New Age bromides. Eerie and indelible.”
-Stephen Holden, New York Times
“4 Stars (Highest Rating)…brave and unflinching, unshakably haunting and deeply mysterious.
I doubt I’ll forget it until the day I die.”
-Jim Emerson, Chicago Sun Times
“An essential piece of journalistic filmmaking: It de-romanticizes the idea of suicide by italicizing it in all its bleak, brutal reality, while making palpable the tortured predicament of those left behind.”
-Jan Stuart, New York Newsday
“The Bridge is both a beautiful film and a disturbing one, and the connection between those two characteristics makes it the most disquieting of documentaries.”
-Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
“Undeniably powerful.” -Variety
“The real item under consideration here is the movie itself, and the bottom line is that it lands in a humane place. The overall effect of the film is broadening. To see it is to dread the bridge jumps and to come away with a feeling of compassion and empathy.”
-Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
“A serious, wrenching and oddly poetic documentary.”
-Lou Lumenick, New York Post
“A brutally discouraging spectacle, presented without a hint of sensationalism, and perhaps it is the film’s eerie placidity that makes the sudden fatalities, so devoid of drama, all the more disquieting.”
-Rossiter Drake, San Francisco Examiner
The Altered Consciousness Collection (Hofmann’s Potion, FLicKeR, Hippie Masala) box set of award-winning documentaries explores the frontiers of human consciousness and the iconic pioneers who opened the doors of perception. From early LSD research and hypnotic “dream machines” to the transformational powers of Eastern spirituality, The Altered Consciousness Collection reveals the sub-culture of enlightenment seekers who influenced a generation.
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Grade Level: AP, College and University Subjects: Culture Studies, Sociology Set: 3 DVDs Total Running Time: 224 minutes Educational Prices: (includes Public Performance Rights)
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Last year nearly 400,000 women in the United States got breast implants. At a time when more women than ever are making this choice, fewer voices than ever seem to be asking “Why?” And fewer still are asking “Are they safe?” Absolutely Safe takes an open-minded, personal approach to the controversy over breast implant safety. Ultimately, Absolutely Safe is the story of everyday women who find themselves and their breasts in the tangled and confusing intersection of health, money, science, and beauty.
At its heart, Absolutely Safe is driven by the experience of the filmmaker’s own mother. Diagnosed in 1974 with breast tumors, Audrey Ciancutti underwent a double mastectomy with silicone-implant reconstruction surgery. A year later, her implants ruptured, and soon after, her health steadily declined. Like thousands of other women, Audrey believes her debilitating illnesses—joint pain, chronic fatigue, scleroderma– are linked to her breast implants; however, most doctors and researchers deny this link. Among the debate by plastic surgeons, toxicologists, attorneys, implant manufacturers, whistle blowers, government officials and activists, Absolutely Safe introduces more everyday women like Audrey who make choices about their breasts in our appearance driven culture.
Even though the FDA recently lifted its restrictions on silicone implants and approved them for wide-scale use, many serious questions remain regarding breast implant safety. However, Absolutely Safe reveals that the conversation on implant safety is far more complex than simple pros and cons. Rather, the real conversation, the most important conversation—with the most difficult and challenging questions—rests with viewers themselves, as all individuals in our culture ultimately face this confusing intersection of choice, risk, money, beauty, and health.
Absolutely Safe sparks this long overdue cultural conversation.
“Absolutely Safe offers women of all ages a unique set of perspectives about the true risks and benefits of breast implants. We listen to women tell their stories, we hear from plastic surgeons with opposing views about the safety of these devices, and we witness illuminating footage from several public hearings conducted by the Food and Drug Administration. It is the perfect antidote to ads and TV shows that now routinely mislead women into thinking that these devices have been proven to be safe.”
-Judy Norsigian, Co-Author and Executive Director, Our Bodies Ourselves
“This moving and disturbing film follows the journeys of two women, one seeking to have her leaking implants removed, the other seeking to have breast augmentation. Interspersed with these tales we meet plastic surgeons both for and against the surgery; women who have suffered mightily due to their silicone implants, including the filmmaker’s mother; and members of the FDA committee who decide whether or not to allow silicone back on the market. All along the viewer feels powerfully the impact pressures to be beautiful have and have had on American women. Breast implants clearly “solve” the problem while introducing myriad new ones. Absolutely Safe should be mandatory viewing for every woman considering surgery. Watching the brutal extraction of failed implants from a patient’s chest wall should be enough to give anyone pause. And the young mother who decided to get implants shares with us her loss of breast sensation. A sense of sadness lingers over the scene. This film makes starkly clear that the female sense of inadequacy is not an individual phenomenon. Institutionalized sexism affects all of us. Destroying our health seems to be an acceptable solution. Absolutely Safe bravely challenges the status quo.”
-Diana York Blaine, Ph.D., The Writing and Gender Studies Program, University of Southern California
“Harrowing, human, and persuasive, Absolutely Safe is an important and beautifully made piece that explores the sometimes deadly and disfiguring consequences of breast implants. Full of nuanced observations, the film chronicles the experience of women who are in various stages of either choosing to get breast implants, or to have them removed. Absolutely Safe is a story that must be told and absolutely must be seen”.
-Rob Moss, Director of Secrecy and The Same River Twice
“We were interested in this film as breast implants have become the most popular elective surgery in Israel in the last few years. It has also become affordable to almost everyone. We believe in educating our viewers as to all aspects of these types of surgeries and this film sheds a light on the possible dangers that are involved in these surgeries.”
-Daphna Israeli, YES Network, Israel
“Our screening and panel discussion of Absolutely Safe was the best attended gender-related programming we’ve had in the history of the University of Texas at Dallas, with approximately 120 students in attendance. Our students loved this program. Absolutely Safe explained the science behind the controversy over the safety of breast implants, but put a human face on all those statistics and research. The white-coated doctors and scientists in the film made their points, but students also went along on the journeys of two women—one getting breast implants and one getting her ruptured implants removed. This film engaged our students, who had over an hour of questions and comments after the screening. They left the program (in their own words) “enlightened,” “angry,” “disgusted,” “appalled,” and–above all—wanting to talk some more about women’s health, ideals of beauty, and the health risks of implants. And they did — to their roommates, their girlfriends, their mothers, and their friends, among others. This is just an amazing, powerful film for engaging students with issues of gender, power, and health policy. “
-Erin Smith, Associate Director, Gender Studies Program, University of Texas, Dallas
“Absolutely Safe is an insightful, moving, and necessary look at the effect of silicone implants on women’s lives. By offering a variety of perspectives Carol Ciancutti-Leyva is able to capture the complexity of this controversial topic. Absolutely Safe should be mandatory viewing for any woman contemplating implants.”
-Kimberly Sedgwick, Co-Founder and Director of Red Tent Sisters, Toronto, Canada
“Showing Absolutely Safe on campus was the best thing I did for Boston College students this year. The film is a harrowing warning to the dangers of breast implants, as well as a captivating look at the social and political dynamics that shape the controversy of implants in our society. I applaud Carol for making and sharing such an important film, and I strongly encourage everyone to see it!”
-Lauren Brown, Women’s Studies Program Boston College
Video Librarian Review
March-April 2009, Volume 24 Issue 2
Absolutely Safe
Rating: 3 out of 4 Stars - Recommended!
In this day and age, breast implants are thought to be “absolutely safe,” a claim that filmmaker Carol Ciancutti-Leyva examines in this thought-provoking documentary. As Ciancutti-Leyva notes at the outset, her mother Audrey chose augmentation after a mastectomy in the 1970’s, a time when the procedure carried greater risks (and before saline became an alternative to silicone). Over the years, Audrey experienced ruptures, joint pain, and chronic fatigue, eventually speaking before an FDA Safety Hearing in 2003 (her testimony is included here). Filmed over a 10-year-period, Absolutely Safe looks at five decades of implant technology, while interviewing women such as former exotic dancer Wendi, who has her silicone implants removed after experiencing health problems, and young wife Denee, who gets implants in order to boost her self-confidence–even though her husband thinks she looks just fine (the film includes some graphic operating-room footage of the procedures for both women). As a toxicologist notes here, these “devices” (as the medical profession refers to them) can leak heavy metals–such as tin, zinc, and platinum–difficult for the body to expel. Offering opinions on both sides, other interviewees include plastic surgeons, a Dow Corning executive, an FDA spokesperson (who cautions that “nothing is free of risk”) and satisfied breast implant customers. Veteran documentarian Jennifer Fox (An American Love Story, Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman) served as executive producer for this documentary, which offers an admirable balance between the personal and the scientific. Recommended. Aud: C, P. (K. Fennessy)
In this ground-breaking BBC series, Jonathan Miller interviews biologist and New York Times best-selling author Richard Dawkins, philosophers Daniel Dennett and Colin McGinn, distinguished playwright Arthur Miller, theologian Denys Turner and Nobel Prize winning physicist Steven Weinberg about their personal intellectual journeys to non-theism. The interviews explore questions from, “Can science answer all questions?” to the influence of anti Semitism in America.
The Atheism Tapes is an invaluable teaching resource that presents a wide range of perspectives, from science to literature to theology, on one of today’s most controversial topics. This series will challenge students and provoke discussion.
Video Librarian Review (July/Aug 2008 - Volume 23, Issue 4)
The Atheism Tapes
Rating: 3½ Stars - Highly Recommended
In 2004, Jonathan Miller hosted a remarkable three-part BBC series called Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief, which was later broadcast on PBS under a slightly different title. Although the documentary combined many elements, one of the most notable was excerpts from interviews that Miller, an avowed non-believer, conducted with a half-dozen figures about their own faith, or—more often—lack thereof. The Atheism Tapes presents the full versions of those interviews—with Miller introducing each segment and occasionally weighing in to explain a particular transition in the discussion—and the fascination of the content compensates for the straightforward talking-head visuals. Five of the interviewees—philosopher Colin McGinn, physicist Steven Weinberg, philosopher Daniel Dennett, playwright Arthur Miller, and biologist Richard Dawkins—are non-believers whose various arguments (as well as disagreements with each other on particular points) are both incisive and thought-provoking. But Miller also draws them out on the subject of what led them to their conclusions—a particularly revealing element in the case of well-known polemicist Dawkins, who discusses his early religious devotion. The sixth interview, with theologian Denys Turner, offers an alternative point of view. Some believers will no doubt refuse to watch these conversations, while others may feel that their faith can only be strengthened by confronting the strongest arguments against it—and The Atheism Tapes definitely delivers the latter. Highly recommended. Aud: C, P. (F. Swietek)
In 2003, Jonathan Miller was working on his series Atheism: A Rough History. So much interesting material was left on the cutting-room floor, that the BBC took the unusual step of pulling out these 6 half-hour episodes deemed too interesting to leave unpublished. These consist of Miller interviewing and conversing with Colin McGinn, Steven Weinberg, Daniel Dennett, Arthur Miller, Richard Dawkins and Denys Turner.
The conversations are interesting, and brief enough to show in a class. The conversations are so wide-ranging, however, that it’s hard to think of a class where they would fit well, apart from a course dealing with this very topic. Although each discussion is unique, Miller usually asks why they don’t believe in God, whether they ever did, why they think so many people do, whether belief is more harmful than beneficial, what the significance of Darwin was, and– if his interlocutor is American– how he fares in such a religious atmosphere. At times I wished Miller’s beliefs differed more from those of his interviewees, so that he could ask some better questions, or press more in certain areas. But Miller did make an effort to play devil’s advocate (Christian’s advocate?), and they may have opened up more for having such a like-minded interviewer. Recommended.
"The film juxtaposes footage ....with discussions of “soul force,” defined as the spiritually-motivated, nonviolent forms of resistance associated with Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., among others. A solid discussion starter, Fierce Light is recommended."
-Video Librarian September/October 2009
"...The Gates makes clear that a lot of folk found Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Central Park enterprise both beautiful and moving. Recommended.
-Video Librarian September/October 2009
"Narcissistic or not, the breakthroughs experienced by some of the participants seem real enough, although Morgan neglects to disclose how much individuals paid for the privilege. The Workshop is recommended for academic human sexuality studies."
-Video Librarian September/October 2009
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The Golden Gate Bridge is an iconic structure. An engineering masterpiece. A triumph of human ingenuity and muscle over the elements. A symbol of San Francisco, the West, freedom – and something more, something almost spiritual but impossible to describe.
Last year nearly 400,000 women in the United States got breast implants. At a time when more women than ever are making this choice, fewer voices than ever seem to be asking “Why?” And fewer still are asking “Are they safe?” Absolutely Safe takes an open-minded, personal approach to the controversy over breast implant safety. Ultimately, Absolutely Safe is the story of everyday women who find themselves and their breasts in the tangled and confusing intersection of health, money, science, and beauty.
