LIVING AND KNOWING YOU’RE ALIVE
synopsis
Alain Cavalier offers up a highly personal work linked to the late Emmanuèle Bernheim, whom he was friends with for 30 years. They start preparing a film based on the novelist’s autobiography, Tout s’est bien passé (lit. Everything Went Well). In it, she tells of how her father asked her to “finish him off” following a cardiovascular event. Cavalier suggests that she play herself and that he play her father. But one winter’s morning, Emmanuèle phones Alain: the shoot will have to be pushed back until the spring, as she needs to go in for an emergency operation…
international title: | Living and Knowing You’re Alive |
original title: | Être vivant et le savoir |
country: | France |
sales agent: | Pathé International |
year: | 2019 |
genre: | docu-fiction |
directed by: | Alain Cavalier |
film run: | 80' |
release date: | FR 5/06/2019 |
cast: | Alain Cavalier, Emmanuèle Bernheim |
producer: | Michel Seydoux |
production: | Caméra One, ARTE France Cinéma |
backing: | Unité Société et Culture d’Arte France (FR), Ciné+ (FR) |
distributor: | Pathé Distribution |