2021 · comedy · drama
Everything Went Fine
Directed by François Ozon1h 53m2021
When her elderly father has a stroke, Emmanuelle rushes to his bedside. Sick and half-paralysed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuelle to help him end his life.
Our read: Everything Went Fine (2021) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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“You want a thoughtful French look at family and choosing how to die.”
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