Living and Knowing You Are Alive

(2019)

★ 6.1 IMDb · 12 votes

Genres: Drama, Documentary

Year: 2019

Runtime: 82 мин

Country: France

Director: Alain Cavalier

Cast: Emmanuèle Bernheim, Teymour Al Attar, Jean-Louis Faure, Saïd Shayestehkia, Alexandre Badaoui, Alain Cavalier

Plot

Novelist and screenwriter Emmanuèle Bernheim and filmmaker Alain Cavalier have been friends for 30 years. They are preparing a film based on the former’s autobiography, “Tout s’est bien passé” (Everything Went Fine). In it, she tells how her father asked her to “end it” in the wake of a heart attack. Cavalier suggests that she plays herself, and that he plays her father. One winter morning, Emmanuèle calls Alain; they will have to postpone the shoot until the spring, as she needs an urgent operation.