Everything Went Fine

<p><img alt="Laurel icon denoting the film is in competition for a Jury Prize." border="0" src="https://data.ajff.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/laurel_2023_JuryPrize_01.png" style="width:20%; max-width:20%; margin-left:10px; float:right;" />In this refreshingly frank, often lighthearted Cannes Palme d’Or nominee depicting the dilemma of assisted dying, a bewildered daughter struggles with her imperious father’s final wish. After an incapacitating stroke leaves him semi-paralyzed, once vigorous Frenchman André demands his pragmatic eldest daughter help end his life with dignity at a Swiss clinic. Old family baggage and bureaucratic hurdles complicate the thorny father-daughter relationship. Master filmmaker François Ozon has adapted Emmanuèle Bernheim’s memoir, with uniformly outstanding performances by Sophie Marceau and Géraldine Pailhas as supportive sisters, André Dussollier as the cruelly abrasive father, and Charlotte Rampling as his emotionally remote, estranged wife.</p>