Heal the Living (2016)

Original title

Réparer les vivants

Directed by

Katell Quillévéré

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

12

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 234 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows several people whose lives become intertwined because of a heart transplant. It shows a young man with a fatal brain injury, his grieving family, and the recipient waiting for a new heart.

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What happens

Heal the Living (French: Réparer les vivants) is a 2016 drama film directed by Katell Quillévéré from a screenplay she co-wrote with Gilles Taurand, based on the 2013 novel Réparer les vivants (Mend the Living) by Maylis de Kerangal. It stars Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Dorval, Bouli Lanners and Kool Shen. Heal the Living interweaves three stories connected to each other via an organ transplant. The film was presented in the Horizons section at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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