Dying Alive
- Drama
Overview
Montreal, a multigenerational house loaded with books, paintings and knick-knacks, so many memories revived on the evening of one last Christmas Eve. Luc, a retired pediatrician and teacher in his eighties, lives with his son François, a pediatrician like his father, and François' wife Esther. Suffering and physically diminished, the old man has now decided to end his life. In a corrosive and sensitive verbal joust, he asks his son to end his days in privacy. The son then takes him on an existential and circus-like journey through the streets of Montreal where the father is supposed to go to his final destination, a hospital where he will be confronted with his ultimate wish: the choice between the finality of medical aid to die or a return to square one, the small pleasures of what remains of his life, alive.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 17, 2021
- Original language
- French
- Spoken languages
- French
- Production
- Filmoption International
- Cast
- Caroline Quach,Benoît Brière,Jean-François Chicoine,Stéphane Jacques,Dorothée Berryman,Marcel Sabourin,Élise Guilbault,Louise Forestier
- Director
- Benoît Brière
- Writer
- Jean-François Chicoine
- Producer
- Paul Cadieux
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt14557058