I Remember Me

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, to the uninitiated, sounds like some awful politically correct euphemism for laziness ("Dude, man, I can't go to class, I'm chronically fatigued!"), so it's a good thing this documentary is around to clarify that it is rather more like having extreme flu nonstop for every day of your life, unless it mysteriously goes away, as about 14 percent of cases do. One of the patients profiled here is so weak that he cannot even sit up without losing consciousness, but doctors still have no idea what causes the sickness, or indeed, if it is a true sickness. Many still consider it psychosomatic, a claim this film goes a long way toward debunking. Director Kim Snyder suffers from the syndrome herself, so it's all the more remarkable that she actually got a complete film made, much less one this compelling (the disease came on suddenly, and the title refers to her previously healthy self). You'll feel fatigued watching it, but more out of empathy than boredom.