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Dying Alive

Dying Alive

2021

N/R

Categories:

  • Drama

Overview:

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.

Benoît Brière

Director

Paul Cadieux

Producer

Jean-François Chicoine

Writer

Cast:

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  • Marcel Sabourin

    Marcel Sabourin

    Luc
  • Benoît Brière

    Benoît Brière

    François
  • Élise Guilbault

    Élise Guilbault

    Esther
  • Dorothée Berryman

    Dorothée Berryman

    Pierrette
  • Stéphane Jacques

    Stéphane Jacques

  • Louise Forestier

    Louise Forestier

    Françoise (voice)