Living and Knowing You Are Alive

2019 6.1 (11 votes) 1h 22m

Genres

Drama Documentary

Production Companies

Caméra One
ARTE France Cinéma
ARTE
Ciné+

Living and Knowing You Are Alive (Être vivant et le savoir)

Overview

Novelist and screenwriter Emmanuèle Bernheim and filmmaker Alain Cavalier have been friends for 30 years. They are preparing a film based on the former’s autobiography, “Tout s’est bien passé” (Everything Went Fine). In it, she tells how her father asked her to “end it” in the wake of a heart attack. Cavalier suggests that she plays herself, and that he plays her father. One winter morning, Emmanuèle calls Alain; they will have to postpone the shoot until the spring, as she needs an urgent operation.