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The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

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Rahul Desai

About The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Title: The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Original Title: Ibelin
Plot: The secret life of a young World of Warcraft gamer is vividly reimagined when his online friends contact his family after his death.
Cast: Mats Steen, Robert Steen, Trude Steen, Mia Steen, Kelsey Ellison, Thomas Stene-Johansen
Director: Benjamin Ree
Cinematography: Tore Vollan
Editor: Robert Stengård
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Rahul Desai (for OTTPlay) 
The Hollywood Reporter India
The Retroactive Stillness Of Grief

Director Benjamin Ree uses the investigative form of a true-crime drama. Except, the twist in this documentary is that the victim was actually a survivor — the grand revelation is life, not death

Benjamin Ree’s The Remarkable Life of Ibelin starts off as a documentary about death. We see the tombstone of Mats Steen, a Norwegian boy whose body and soul were at war. A mix of VHS footage and family interviews then reveals that Mats had duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a degenerative disease that reduced his 25 years to a hellish survival story. His mind yearned for the momentum his muscles never had. Subsequent clips show his body shrinking on landmarks and vacations, the end inching closer.

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