Liberty: 3 Stories About Life & Death

A warmly personal and unexpectedly life-affirming portrait of a community brought closer together by terminal illness, Liberty: 3 Stories About Life & Death follows—in a creative back-and-forth chronology—the cancer battles of three women who were founding members of an informal but tight-knit support group of middle-aged lesbians that has thrived for over 30 years. Director Pam Walton, also a member of this sisterhood, lets her footage speak for itself without narration, and in doing so creates a film that is frank about the subject of death yet also celebrates life in such a way that this could serve both as a lesson in open-mindedness and as inspiration for those affected directly or indirectly by the ravages of any deadly disease. Recommended. Aud: C, P. (R. Blackwelder)