by François Ozon
GermanAndré, an 85-year-old Parisian art collector, suffers a stroke and is subsequently paralysed on one side. Although André gets better and better from week to week, he realises that he can no longer manage on his own. When his daughter Emmanuèle visits him in the hospital, he asks her to do him a far-reaching favour: he wants her to help him end his life with an assisted suicide organisation in Switzerland. François Ozon's new film is based on the memoirs of the same name by the writer Emmanuèle Bernheim, who is played in the film by Sophie Marceau. Through her eyes, we dive into a bourgeois family universe where we are confronted with ethical questions that concern us all – leaving no one untouched.
