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Elstree 1976
2015 · Documentary
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9 votes
"To Be Alive!" was designed to celebrate the common ground between different cultures by tracing how children in various parts of the world mature into adulthood.
CinemaSerf
February 1, 2026
This isn’t so much a documentary as a series of quick-fire portraits of life. Some are single frame and a little more extended, some share the picture with others and are gone in a flash, but all are delivered in a manner I felt had something of the heartbeat to it. From the mundanities of urban existence to those of rural. Older people offer us a perhaps more settled perspective whilst the younger ones - who feature…
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