De Son Vivant (2021)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 92 minuten
Alternative title: Peaceful
Country:
France
Directed by: Emmanuelle Bercot
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Benoît Magimel and Cécile de France
IMDb score:
6,8 (1.058)
Releasedate: 16 July 2021
De Son Vivant plot
The denial of a son who is confronted with a merciless disease at much too young age. The suffering of a mother confronted with the unacceptable. And between the two, a doctor fights to do his job, and even more than that. One year, four seasons to dance with the disease, tame it and understand what it means to die “while alive”.
Actors and actresses
Crystal
Benjamin
Eugénie
Dr. Eddé
Léandre
Lola
Anna
William, le musicothérapeute
Gladys, l'infirmière
Le jeune notaire
Reviews & comments
mrklm
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- 11374 messages
- 9897 votes
Theater teacher Benjamin Boltanski [Benoît Magimel] has cancer that has progressed so far that he can no longer be saved. With his well-meaning but smothering mother [Catherine Deneuve], he tries to prepare for the inevitable. In the first hour, Bercot sketches an ideal picture of the care system in which the nursing staff, led by the genuinely involved Dr. Eddé [Gabriel Sara], take all the time and space to take care of their patients and keep up morale by singing Lean On Me together. But Benjamin's death is completely milked out and Bercot overwhelms you with so many visual clichés that the ending is a huge relief. And that is not a recommendation.
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BBarbie
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- 12893 messages
- 7675 votes
It is undoubtedly all well-intentioned, but this film about palliative care does not come across as credible. The melodramatic ending doesn't do the film any good either. The role of Cécile de France in particular is cringeworthy, while Catherine Deneuve seems to have turned on autopilot. The film misses the mark in several respects.
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Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
A fairly standard drama that I could have done a bit more with than the others here, but it never became anything special. A drama on autopilot about a young man diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. I thought Gabriel Sara played a nice and energetic role as a doctor, but to conclude that this is how it all works, hmm a bridge too far I think. Deneuve, a great lady in the French film world, did it more on experience, without a doubt. Magimel did a decent job as a patient. De France's role was also very poor all in all. Not a film that stands out above the crowd and depends too much on cheap sentiment rather than on a profound drama.
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