Capernaum - Family Review

Content Warnings

• Sexual Content

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  A woman while at jail and away from her baby and crying squeezes her breasts and some of her milk pours out.

  A boy removes the clothing of a female statue so her breasts and nipples become visible.

  We see a women in a toilet breastfeed a baby. Breast is visible. No nipple seen.

• Violence

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  Children are occasionally pushed, shoved, and smacked by adults. There is no dwelling on pain, impact, or injury as these shots appear to have been shot in a shaky manner. An adult character is stabbed (off-camera) by a child, sustaining non-fatal injuries. After the fact, some blood stains are visible on the child's clothing.

  The mother beats her son up several times.

• Profanity

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  Contains coarse language throughout (much of which is uttered by a child), including the use of "fuck", "motherfucker", and "cocksucker". The film also contains use of milder terms, including "son of a bitch", "shit", "piss", "asshole", "crap", "slut", "whore", and "bastard". A child uses coarse language whilst entertaining an infant. The coarse language disclosed here is reflective of the subtitles in the English-language version of the film.

• Intense Scenes

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  Contains themes of child abuse, neglect, poverty, family breakdown, child marriage, drug manufacturing, and bereavement which may cause distress.

  There is a discreet sequence in which a young boy instructs an 11 year old girl, who has just had her menarche, to put on a sanitary pad, and warns her against disclosing her pubescence lest her parents attempt to marry her off.

  Expect strong/disturbing thematic content, language and some drug material.