Everything Went Fine
DIRECTOR: FRANÇOIS OZON

Writer-director François Ozon’s latest film suggests that part of living well is having a good death, and that the manner of such a death should be under one’s own control. Exploring the fraught subject of euthanasia through an intimately individual story, based on a memoir of her father by Ozon’s late writing partner Emmanuèle Bernheim, emphasises that it can only be an intensely personal decision.

We first meet 85-year-old art collector André (André Dussollier) when his daughter Emmanuèle (Sophie Marceau) rushes to the hospital after learning that he has suffered a stroke. She finds him partly paralysed, frus- trated and furious. As he gradually recovers limited speech and mobility, we realise that his being impatient, disparaging and demand- ing is nothing new.