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Can We Get Married?
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Can We Get Married?

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Emma and Ben both have Down's syndrome, and they want to get married. The film follows the couple through their relationship, using interviews with them and the people around them to look at what stands in their way, from family worry to the wider assumption that people with intellectual disabilities should not have adult romantic lives. It sits with the ordinary texture of their relationship, the time they spend together and the small negotiations couples go through, rather than treating their disability as the whole story. The camera also catches the harder conversations, the doubts raised by people who love them and the couple's own answers to those doubts. The film's case rests on treating Emma and Ben as a couple first, with a disability as one fact among many, and it leaves the question of whether they marry open rather than resolving it for the audience.