🎬 Documentary

The Needle

2012 40m Dir. Carmen Oquendo-Villar

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The Needle is a portrait of a home clinic for body modification in one of San Juan's most impoverished neighborhoods. In telling the story of the clinic's owner and two clients, the film explores addiction as expressed through the search for beauty, social acceptance, and inter-personal affection.

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Year
2012
Runtime
40m
Genre
Documentary
Director
Carmen Oquendo-Villar
Language
ES
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