Can life end on our own terms? A family’s journey through end-of-life care is explored in “Everything Went Fine.” The film sees a man ask for help ending his life after a devastating stroke, his appeal pushes a daughter to confront her complicated feelings as well as a bureaucratic nightmare. The project hails from celebrated filmmaker François Ozon; his recent works have become critically-acclaimed favorites, including “Peter von Kant.” “Everything Went Fine” is not the only Ozon project to hit theaters soon — the crime dramedy “Mon Crime” comes to French theaters on March 8.
The film’s official synopsis:
“Based on the autobiographical novel by author Emmanuèle Bernheim (who had collaborated on Ozon’s screenplays for Under The Sand, Swimming Pool and Ricky), EVERYTHING WENT FINE is a dramatic change of pace for the genre-hopping director. After a debilitating stroke, 85-year-old art dealer André Bernheim (Alain Resnais regular André Dussolier) demands that his daughter Emmanuèle (Sophie Marceau, beloved by French audiences since her teenage debut in the 1980 hit La Boum), help him end life on his own terms. Faced with a painful decision, Emmanuèle, with the grudging support of her younger sister Pascale (Ozon regular Géraldine Pailhas), begins sorting through the processes and bureaucratic hurdles necessary to fulfill her father’s final wish, as she is forced to reconcile her past with a complicated, stubborn, yet charismatic man.”
End-of-life issues and their impact on surviving relatives are explored in “Everything Went Fine.” The film debuts at New York’s Quad Cinema on April 14 and Los Angeles’ Laemmle Royal on April 21. A national expansion is planned but no dates are set. Watch the trailer below.