''Between Heaven and Earth'' (french: Sur la terre comme au ciel), also exhibited under the title ''On Earth As It Is In Heaven'', is a 1992 film directed by Belgian director

Marion Hänsel Marion Hänsel (née Ackermann; 12 February 1949 – 8 June 2020)Carmen Maura María del Carmen García Maura (born 15 September 1945) is a Spanish actress. In a career that has spanned six decades, she has starred in films such as ''Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'', ''¡Ay Carmela!'', '' Common Wealth'', and ...

Plot

Maura plays a pregnant television reporter who discovers that an increasing number of unborn babies (including her own) are telling their mothers they don't want to be born, or are born stillborn when induced.Jay Carr
"'Between Heaven and Earth' just misses the mark"
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Reception

The film was not well-received by Belgian critics. Luc Honore of ''

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'' thought that the film's concept was thin and might have been more successful as a short film. ''

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'' critic

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described the film as "deadly earnest" and "an uneasy hybrid of science fiction and medical information" populated by "programmatic stick figures". Jay Carr of ''

'' thought it was "a high-minded save-the-planet cri du coeur" that did not fully sustain its premise and energy but "there's never any doubt that its heart is in the right place." In a brief review for the film's exhibition at the 1992 American Film Institute International Film Festival, ''

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'' critic Michael Wilmington said that it "fails as social comment ''and'' horror story".

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