François Ozon thrills La Croisette: the French director returns to competition at the Cannes Film Festival with “Tout s’est bien passé”, the second film in competition by a French author after Leos Carax with “Annette”.
At the base of “Tout s’est bien passé” is the novel of the same name by Emmanuèle Bernheim, who told his own story with his father: a man who, after a stroke, asks his daughter to help him die, taking him to Switzerland .
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After the nostalgic «Summer ’85», which came out about a month ago in our cinemas, the ever more prolific Ozon returns to tackle the theme of death, human bonds and those goodbyes that seem inevitable.
In this sense, one can recall what still remains one of the high points of the director’s long career, namely “Il tempo che resta” from 2005.
A film devoid of rhetoric
This drama that focuses on the theme of euthanasia is not a film of denunciation, but a film dedicated to the father-daughter relationship in one of the most painful moments of their existence.Ozon wisely does not (s) fall into rhetorical choices and remains essential , while still managing to involve and touch particularly deep strings. There are no great directorial flashes to report and there are some empty passages in the screenwriting phase, but overall it is a film that manages to make us think, heartfelt and strong by a cast full of great interpreters such as Sophie Marceau, André Dussollier, Charlotte Rampling and Hanna Schygulla.