French helmer Katell Quillévéré's third feature is a medical drama based on Maylis de Kerangal's Booker-nominated novel. Stars Tahar Rahim...
French helmer Katell Quillévéré's third feature is a medical drama based on Maylis de Kerangal's Booker-nominated novel. Stars Tahar Rahim and Emmanuelle Seigner.
"The film begins in innocence as a French teenager leaves his girlfriend's apartment and joins his friends on a road trip to a seaside surfing spot. In another town, a woman receives the news that her heart condition has become more serious. Elsewhere, medical staff at a regional hospital work through the critical daily details of saving lives. These stories are destined to intersect, but not before we are led through a series of intense and carefully balanced scenes in which people are forced to deal with the unexpected. Estranged parents, families with secrets, and children hiding news from parents (and vice-versa) become the grist of this emotionally intelligent story." (Toronto International Film Festival)
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"Katell Quillévéré's superb third feature is a wrenching medical drama that blends dazzling formal polish with rawest emotion."
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Variety
Variety"What stays with you is the miracle of how we're all connected in a million different ways."
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Time Out
Time Out"It's a film with emotional force, though less nuance and complexity than Quillévéré's other work."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"For all its artfulness Heal The Living looks tame by comparison with L'Intrus, a much more demanding film about a heart transplant made in 2004 by the great French director Claire Denis."
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Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald"Structured more like a relay race than a conventional ensemble drama, a soaring sense of movement knits together quietly luminous performances."
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Screen Daily
Screen Daily"[Heal the Living] is a refreshing hospital drama that manages to shun the genre's trappings of melodrama in favour of a more complex and emotive story."
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New Zealand Herald
New Zealand Herald"...this is an impressive step up for Quillevere ...With a uniformly excellent cast chock-full of Francophone name actors..."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"French director and screenwriter Katell Quillévéré's Heal the Living is an elegy to life and told equally as poetically."
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FilmInk
FilmInkHeal The Living | Details
- Runtime
- 103
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- France
