Living and Knowing You Are Alive

Être vivant et le savoir

2019·82'

Alain Cavalier

DocumentaryDrama

★ 6.1

Letterboxd TMDB #584256

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.

Cast

Emmanuèle Bernheim Self

Teymour Al Attar Self

Jean-Louis Faure Self

Saïd Shayestehkia Self

Alexandre Badaoui Self

Alain Cavalier Self