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PRESS QUOTES - A LIFE WITHOUT PAIN

"Melody Gilbert's riveting and shocking documentary...profiles three children with 'congenital insensitivity to pain,' a disease seemingly out of science fiction, charting their injuries, triumphs and setbacks unflinchingly and with a note of hope.'
- Austin American-Statesman (4 stars****) (full review here)

"A Life Without Pain works because it sheds some light on a rare and fascinating ailment while never resorting to sappy sentimentalism to up the "awwww" factor. By the time you're done visiting these families, you'll feel sincere sympathy for the kids, true admiration for their parents and siblings, and probably a dose of appreciation for your own ability to feel pain -- as crazy as that might sound."
- Scott Weinberg, eFilm Critic (4 stars ****) (full review here)

"The film is a powerful lesson in the resilience of close-knit families battling for normalcy"
- Austin Chronicle (full review here)

"A Life Without Pain simply fascinates, with it's snapshot moments in the lives of the three girls. Watching the girls suffer in their painless bodies, it is impossible not to ache for them"
- South By Southwest Film Festival Catalogue (here)

"A Life Without Pain is the buzz of the festival."
- KVUE-TV news

"Among hundreds of titles at film festivals, a few stand out like little diamonds amid so much rough. We predict that a handful of films will have a good bounce-they will find an audience in theatrical release or television---including 'A Life Without Pain'"
- Chris Garcia, Austin American-Statesman Film Critic

"The biggest achievement of "A Life Without Pain" is simply introducing the viewer to this exotic and nearly unbelievable condition. It also does a great job demonstrating not only how the sufferers themselves must learn to live with this disease, but also by showing how CIPA and, by extension, any handicap puts a strain on overburdened, overly stressed out parents and siblings."
- Film Threat (full review here)


"See this movie. It will change your life."
- eFilmCritic, Viewer Comment


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