Let me start this off by stating that I am a huge breastfeeding advocate and I nursed my own child into toddlerhood. This film is very disappointing for several reasons. It dragged on for way too long. Dana Ben-Ari is clearly new to filmmaking and needs to learn how to trim the fat. When your audience is comprised of breastfeeding advocates and we all start yawning during the screening (yes, this happened at the Santa Monica screening of the film!) and then look around to see that everyone else is yawning too, it doesn't speak well for your art. A few of the interviews with the experts were good. There were a few cook bed sharing nursing families in the film. But there was way too much "this is still taboo" and playing that card up a lot that it doesn't help to normalize breastfeeding. This is not a film that advocates breastfeeding. Only one of the women followed through the film nursed her child til the first year. Everyone else stopped at 3 or 6 months and the fathers were generally not very supportive either. This is not what my personal experience was in the world of breastfeeding. The Milky Way is an amazing movie that does a MUCH better job. Dana Ben-Ari, find a new hobby.
Review of Breastmilk
