1 in 2 review – compassionate film about dealing with bowel cancer is a personal plea on behalf of the young

Summary

David Wilkinson made this warm, generous documentary of his own treatment, and asks why so many much younger people are getting the same diagnosis ‘I am lucky, as I have become old.” That is the pithy, personal summary offered by English film-maker David Wilkinson, whose previous movie was his thoughtful, eloquent film The Marbles , which reopened the case for the restitution of the Parthenon marbles to Greece. Now he reveals that he was in fact battling stage four bowel cancer throughout its making, and this new and very personal film is now about his own condition, a film in which the…

Description from The Guardian.