Tout S’est Bien Passé by François Ozon stars Sophie Marceau, André Dussollier, Géraldine Pailhas, Charlotte Rampling, Hanna Schygulla, Éric Caravaca and Grégory Gadebois.
Cannes Day 2: What the Critics say...
by Alexa DalbyTout S’est Bien Passé
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Tout s’est bien passé
André Dussollier stars as a strong-willed octogenarian who asks his daughter, played by Sophie Marceau, to help end his life following a major stroke in François Ozon‘s assisted-suicide drama.
“…A gesture of gratitude toward the late novelist Emmanuèle Bernheim, his script collaborator on Under the Sand, Swimming Pool and 5×2. Taking a refreshingly frank, uncomplicated attitude to its fraught issues, the film stars Sophie Marceau in a compellingly grounded performance as Bernheim, asked to take on a role of tremendous moral and emotional weight by a man with whom she has always had a somewhat thorny relationship and yet finds impossible to deny…” – Hollywood Reporter
Ahed’s Knee
Nadav Lapid plays in Competition with a caustic story about an Israeli film-maker forced into a cultural compromise.
– Screen International
“…45-year-old Israeli auteur Nadav Lapid, who, for his fifth feature, has made his most radical movie yet. An abrasive, cinematically bold auto-fiction about a filmmaker fighting off personal, professional and political demons while on a trip to present one of his movies…” – Hollywood Reporter
Opening Film: Robust
Critics Week opens with an enjoyable odd-couple drama starring Gerard Depardieu and Deborah Lukumuena directed by Constance Meyer.
– Screen International
Rehanna
Un Certain Regard drama set in Bangladesh follows one woman’s heedless pursuit of justice directed by Abdullah Mohammad Saad.
– Screen International
The Souvenir: Part II
“A follow up to 2019’s lauded, semi-autobiographical drama The Souvenir, it once again stars Honor Swinton Byrne as Julie, now mourning the loss of her boyfriend Anthony (Tom Burke), a drug addict who claimed to work for the Foreign Office. His spectre looms large as Julie drifts through film school, eventually making a film about her experiences with Anthony with the help of her peers.,,,More ambitious in scope than The Souvenir, this explores the challenges of student filmmaking with a humorous touch that’s likely to appeal to industry audiences…this is a witty, fitfully intriguing sequel that’s a good fit for Cannes: Hogg may be the most French director to come out of England.” – Deadline Hollywood
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