So Distressing - But 100% Recommended Viewing

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Love You to Death: A Year of Domestic Violence.

 

  On average, seven women a month in Britain are killed by their male partner or ex-partner. This documentary by acclaimed director Vanessa Engle tells the gripping and untold human stories behind this shocking yet faceless statistic, shedding light on a majorly important subject - the continuing and disproportionate violence visited by men on women every day.
The film features a roll call of all the women killed by their male partner or ex-partner in the course of one calendar year. Of the 164 women murdered in Britain in 2013, 86 were killed by their male partner or ex-partner. This film names all 86 women and, through interviews with families, friends and neighbours, tells the stories of seven of them in detail.

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 On average, seven women a month in Britain are killed by their male partner or ex-partner. This documentary by acclaimed director Vanessa Engle tells the gripping and untold human stories behind this shocking yet faceless statistic, shedding light on a majorly important subject - the continuing and disproportionate violence visited by men on women every day.

The film features a roll call of all the women killed by their male partner or ex-partner in the course of one calendar year. Of the 164 women murdered in Britain in 2013, 86 were killed by their male partner or ex-partner. This film names all 86 women and, through interviews with families, friends and neighbours, tells the stories of seven of them in detail.




This film didn’t try to provide any psychological explanations for the behaviour of the victims or the perpetrators though.
Its main purpose was to show us how common the violence is, how many lives are ruptured by it. When faced with something so large, so upsetting, the mind zooms in on the fine detail but it can’t do that unless there’s a canny presence operating the camera.
Engle’s eye caught the ornaments and trinkets in Chloe Siokos’ burnt-out house, echoes of the woman behind the name and the happier life before the tragedy.
The anecdote Kirsty Humphrey’s friends told about her fake tan washing off showed an innocence, an unworldliness, that perhaps was exploited.
Saddest and most powerful of all, was the scene at the grave of Chantelle Barnsdale-Quean. Her parents took her daughters to pour a drink on it.
The little one was still of an age to find comfort in the ritual. Her older sister, in a glance that many could have missed, told us that age was far behind. A tough subject, sensitively handled, searing its way into our memories.


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I cannot recommend this highly moving documentary enough 


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