Her Name Is Sabine (2007)

Highly Recommended

France
Feature Documentary
Original Title: Elle s'appelle Sabine
Director: Sandrine Bonnaire
Cinematographer: Sandrine Bonnaire, Catherine Cabrol
Composers: Jefferson Lembeye, Nicola Piovani
Featuring: Sabine Bonnaire

Actress Sandrine Bonnaire’s intimate portrait of her autistic sister, Sabine, alternating between home-movie footage of a young, pretty, and vibrant Sabine before she was hospitalised, and patient, observational footage of her today, physically, mentally, and emotionally diminished, is a delicate, beautiful, humane, and heartbreakingly moving film. Iain.Stott