Wonderful character development!

Too much of everything

A different way of telling a story

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

I'm finishing my 2nd trimester and have decided to watch this movie. It was amazing! Just wow! Unlike Wortwart I found it very interesting and I truly do not think of it as 'kitsch'. I was astonished by the difference and comparison of various childbirths. Across the world people vary and the way they are greeting their children in this world is bound to be different. Some want to give birth surrounded by the nature, other in the hospital. Some want to have natural childbirth, other need to have c.sec. Some children are born healthy, some unfortunately die. This movie takes you across the world, different cultures and the way they deliver babies. If I had any choice I would want to give birth with dolphins, in water; however due to my health problems I know it is going to be a hospital delivery. I truly hope it will not look like hospital births showed in Vietnam or Russia. French hospital labour looked very peaceful and so emotional – this is what I am hoping for. If you are open minded and want to see how people across the world are preparing to welcome their babies, it is a movie for you. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

As my wife is in an early phase of pregnancy, her hormones force her to shed tears to sentimental comedies and pictures of cute babies - so we thought this would be the proper movie for a Sunday evening.Wrong, awfully wrong. We only made it through the first ten minutes (so I cannot say if it's going to get better. I heavily doubt that). It was our own fault: We should have sent a few prayers to the goddess and let a shaman clean our house from bad spirits and cobwebs before inserting the DVD with this solemn kitsch. But if you plan to prepare for birth by painting your body and going to a place where there's no electricity and no doctor or to a sacred Indian river which is also used as an overcrowded city's sewerage, this is your movie. People like us just don't want no dolphin in the delivery room.