Living and Knowing You Are Alive
Novelist and screenwriter Emmanuèle Bernheim and filmmaker Alain Cavalier have been friends for 30 years. They are preparing a film based on the former’s autobiography, “Tout s’est bien passé” (Everything Went Fine). In it, she tells how her father asked her to “end it” in the wake of a heart attack. Cavalier suggests that she plays herself, and that he plays her father. One winter morning, Emmanuèle calls Alain; they will have to postpone the shoot until the spring, as she needs an urgent operation.
- Year: 2019
- Country: France
- Genre: Drama, Documentary
- Studio: Caméra One, ARTE France Cinéma, ARTE, Ciné+
- Keyword: cancer, euthanasia
- Director: Alain Cavalier
- Cast: Emmanuèle Bernheim, Teymour Al Attar, Jean-Louis Faure, Saïd Shayestehkia, Alexandre Badaoui, Alain Cavalier