Archive of films Heal the Living / Réparer les vivants

France / Belgium
2016, 104 min

Section: Variety Critics’ Choice
Year: 2017

What sounds like a routine episode of “ER” is complicated with rare depths of personal and sensual detail in French director Katell Quillévéré’s sublimely compassionate, heart-crushing heart-transplant ensemble, which boasts beautifully pitched performances from Tahar Rahim and Emmanuelle Seigner.


Synopsis

A 17-year-old car crash victim lies brain-dead in hospital, as doctors urgently pitch the virtues of organ donation to his distraught parents; over in another town, a middle-aged mother of two with a severely degenerative heart condition goes on the waiting list for a transplant. What sounds like fodder for a routinely gripping episode of “ER” is complicated with rare depths of personal and sensual detail in French director Katell Quillévéré’s sublimely compassionate, heart-crushing third feature. More polished but no less authentically humane than her previous works Suzanne and Love Like Poison, this spidering ensemble piece — adapted from Maylis de Kerangal’s internationally acclaimed 2014 novel — boasts beautifully pitched performances from the likes of Tahar Rahim and Emmanuelle Seigner. But it’s Quillévéré’s soaring visual and sonic acumen that suffuses this sad, potentially familiar hospital drama with true grace.

Guy Lodge

About the director

Katell Quillévéré

Katell Quillévéré (b. 1980, Abidjan, Ivory Coast) is a French screenwriter and movie director. In 2003-2009 she shot four short writer-director pictures, and in 2010 she came out with her first feature title Love Like Poison (Un poison violent), which sensitively portrays a girl’s complicated coming of age in a Catholic boarding school; the film won the Jean Vigo Prize. She is highly interested in relationships and emotional bonds, and in her next film Suzanne (2013) what seemed at first to the young protagonist like supportive sisterly and fatherly love becomes an oppressive burden. Her latest psychological drama, with ambitions to philosophy, is based on the award-winning novel of the same name by French writer Maylis de Kerangal, and Quillévéré was nominated for a César for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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Section: Variety Critics’ Choice
   
Director: Katell Quillévéré
Screenplay: Katell Quillévéré, Gilles Taurand podle stejnojmenného románu Maylis de Kerangalové / based on the novel of the same name by Maylis de Kerangal
Dir. of Photography: Tom Harari
Music: Alexandre Desplat 
Editor: Thomas Marchand
Art Director: Dan Bevan
Producer: David Thion, Justin Taurand, Philippe Martin
Production: Les films Pelléas
Coproduction: Les films du Bélier
Cast: Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Dorval, Bouli Lanners
Sales: Playtime
Distributor: Artcam Films

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