Release Date

17 Dec, 2021

Runtime

00:35: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Montreal, a multigenerational house loaded with books, paintings and knick-knacks, so many memories revived on the evening of one last Christmas Eve. Luc, a retired pediatrician and teacher in his eighties, lives with his son François, a pediatrician like his father, and François' wife Esther. Suffering and physically diminished, the old man has now decided to end his life. In a corrosive and sensitive verbal joust, he asks his son to end his days in privacy. The son then takes him on an existential and circus-like journey through the streets of Montreal where the father is supposed to go to his final destination, a hospital where he will be confronted with his ultimate wish: the choice between the finality of medical aid to die or a return to square one, the small pleasures of what remains of his life, alive.

Original Title

Mourir en vie

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Actors

Marcel Sabourin

Benoît Brière

Élise Guilbault

Dorothée Berryman

Stéphane Jacques

Louise Forestier

Caroline Quach

Jean-François Chicoine

Crew

Paul Cadieux

Benoît Brière

Jean-François Chicoine