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Apr 14, 2023 · You rally around. This is a very sensitive and soft film, delicately observed, and easy in its presentation. André’s wish to die is just a small part of the tapestry of life. Nobody is giving a self-consciously “great” performance; nobody reaches for the brass ring. This ensemble is a believable family.
Apr 21, 2023 · Review: ‘Everything Went Fine’ reveals the love required to grant the ultimate final wish. Emmanuèle (Sophie Marceau) and her father, André (André Dussollier), in the powerfully ...
- Robert Abele
Apr 21, 2023 · For all its spirited matter-of-factness, “Everything Went Fine” could be about a tense holiday, a fraught wedding or an amicable divorce. Though we’re in the chronology of an ending, Ozon wisely orchestrates a timeline of living, not dying. The detail-rich performances keep it soberly affirming. We’re always in Emmanuèle’s space ...
Jul 8, 2021 · July 8, 2021. Based on Emmanuèle Bernheim’s book about helping her elderly father commit euthanasia, Everything Went Fine finds François Ozon working again in the mode of the social-message drama. As in 2019’s By the Grace of God, his dramatization of the child sexual abuse scandal that rocked the French Catholic Church, Ozon’s latest ...
Jun 16, 2022 · Overall Everything Went Fine feels like a fitting and respectful tribute from Ozon to his late friend and collaborator. And while the film is about so much more than assisted dying, it remains one ...
- Linda Marric
Apr 13, 2023 · The latest film from the prolific French director François Ozon, “Everything Went Fine” is a drama about assisted suicide that wears tragedy lightly. Understated almost to a fault, the film ...
Apr 14, 2023 · Apr 13, 2023. Understated almost to a fault, the film pitches its tone somewhere among the looming sorrow, gentle comedy and bureaucratic tedium that death, especially when planned, can entail. If the result is bracingly unsentimental, it’s also a touch inert — a little too poised to compel emotionally. Read More.
