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Everything Went Fine

Tout s'est bien passé

2021

François Ozon

Sophie Marceau, André Dussollier, Geraldine Pailhas, Hanna Schygulla ...

6.2

565

Drama When André, 85, has a stroke, Emmanuelle hurries to her father's bedside. Sick and half-paralyzed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuelle to help him end his life. But how can you honor such a request when it's your own father?

	Media	Author	Review
		Paul Whitington Irish Independent	"'Tout s'est bien passé' is oddly life-affirming, held together by a brilliant performance from Dussolier (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Devika Girish The New York Times	"Dussollier is formidable, vacillating between desperation and entitlement, but there's a repressed quality to the movie that mutes the emotions, sanding down conflicts to pat exchanges"
		Rex Reed The New York Observer	"It's life-affirming and teaches us something valid about life's unexpected but unavoidable challenges, eschewing all temptations to give in to sentimentality (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Anthony Lane The New Yorker	"Every performance in 'Everything Went Fine' is nicely judged —too much so, I suspect, for many filmgoers, who will be praying for someone to explode. Yet the movie is anything but bland"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"André Dussollier and Sophie Marceau are outstanding (...) Ozon has brought a tremendous understated confidence and artistry to this very affecting film about euthanasia (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Ben Croll The Wrap	"Ozon remains a terrific actors’ director, with both Marceau and especially Dussollier giving lively performances that afford the film its limited spark."
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Considering the subject matter, Everything Went Fine is not the most affecting drama, but its honesty and intelligence keep you glued."
		Robbie Collin Telegraph	"An exploration of assisted suicide that pulls its punches (...) It lacks the intellectual and erotic fizz of Ozon’s best work (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Guy Lodge Variety	"This elegantly written, persuasively performed drama finds the ever-unpredictable Ozon in his plainest, most pragmatic gear as a filmmaker."
		Iana Murray The Playlist	"François Ozon’s assisted suicide drama is too restrained to connect (...) 'Everything Went Fine' does go down just fine. No more, no less"
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"An unhurried meditation on family and the closure we will never get with our parents (...) ’Everything Went Fine’ eschews emotional fireworks in favour of nicely observed small moments"
		Todd McCarthy Deadline	"Although the subject of euthanasia does not normally suggest a good time at the movies, French director François Ozon serves one up anyway with the help of a raft of crafty and appealing veteran actors"
		Sheila O'Malley rogerebert.com	"[It] is an emotional and complex portrait of a family in crisis (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Pat Brown Slant	"A keenly observed, if too neat, drama (...) The film is an openly, almost assertively bourgeois drama that wears its politics on its business-casual sleeves but can in no way be mistaken for a polemic (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Chloe Walker Paste Magazine	"Strong turns from Rampling, Pailhas and Éric Caravaca bolster the overall air of convincing, unshowy realism"
		Ben Kenigsberg rogerebert.com	"Whatever its flaws, 'Everything Went Fine' rallies with a beautiful final act, cutting to black at a moment that is simple but devastating"
		Robert Abele Los Angeles Times	"'Everything Went Fine' reveals the love required to grant the ultimate final wish (...) The detail-rich performances keep it soberly affirming"
		David Riedel Chicago Reader	"It is well made without being entertaining—though entertainment doesn’t seem to be its goal—and it will reward patient audiences who appreciate a deliberate march toward an inevitable conclusion"
		Emma Steen Time Out	"François Ozon's sensitive end-of-life drama is beautifully acted but offers little emotional pay-off (...) You're left with a nagging feeling that everything could have gone… better (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Kevin Maher The Times	"It's rich, infinitely complex and emotionally honest material. Marceau is flawless among a cast of near-perfect turns (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"

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