At my age, it is very difficult to watch such films, especially when there are significant health problems and no one around. But the cast and the name of the director still persuaded me to watch. François Ozon’s film “Everything went well” / Tout s’est bien passé, 2021, is an adaptation of the autobiographical novel of the same name
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At my age, it is very difficult to watch such films, especially when there are significant health problems and no one around. But the cast and the name of the director still persuaded me to watch. François Ozon’s film “Everything went well” / Tout s’est bien passé, 2021, is an adaptation of the autobiographical novel of the same name by writer and screenwriter Emmanuel Bernheim (Bernheim). In 2019, one documentary by director Alain Cavalier based on the same book was released, in which Emmanuel Bernheim, like all the other participants, played herself, but, unfortunately, she died during filming. François Ozon’s new film is dedicated to her memory. Writer Emmanuel Bernheim (Sophie Marceau) is sitting at home writing books when news comes to her that her father, Andre (Andre Dussolier), has been hospitalized. Together with her sister, they arrive there and find out that her father had a stroke. After some time, he can already communicate with them a little and then he has the idea that such a further existence is impossible, he asks Emmanuel to help him leave his life. She does not approve of the idea, but he continues to insist that it is forbidden in France, after all, one friend gives her the coordinates of a Swiss company that provides such services. And then we see how the events unfold in the organization of this event, we see how relatives react – and detached, suffering from Parkinson’s disease and depression, his wife Claude (Charlotte Rampling), who once married Andre for great love, although she knew that he was a homosexual, and his extremely emotional partner Gerard, and his sister Simon, who came from America to try to talk him out. Everything goes quite smoothly, eventually he is taken to Switzerland, although his daughters are not allowed to accompany him there, but then the lady from the company calls and reports that "It went well." I have to give credit to all the actors, they play very well, I guess Dussolier and Rampling, both my age, they are 77 years old, it was not easy to play such roles. But I liked the movie.
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