Picture of the movie Tout s'est bien passé (Everything went fine) © Carole Bethuel / Mandarin Production Foz
Tout s’est bien passé (Everything went Fine), François Ozon’s tribute to Emmanuèle Bernheim
One film a year, no more, no less. François Ozon maintains a flawless regularity in his filmmaking, often celebrated at the Festival de Cannes. For Tout s'est bien passé, (Everything Went Fine) his fourth film in Competition, the director adapts Emmanuèle Bernheim's book of the same name and persuaded Sophie Marceau, to return to the big screen for an eagerly awaited appearance.
The act of killing one’s father remains a dilemma, even if the father asks for it. Laid low by a stroke at the age of 85, André asks his daughter Emmanuèle to help him die. At least at first, she is reluctant.
The story is that of Emmanuèle Bernheim, who died in 2017. In 2013, she wrote a book about her father's harsh experience of euthanasia, a story that François Ozon now adapts. Beyond the universality and philosophical dimension of the subject, the filmmaker was touched by the story of the woman he calls his friend and who has collaborated on four of his screenplays (notably for Swimming Pool, in Competition in 2003).
Touched by this story and seduced by the finely balanced morality of François Ozon's script, Sophie Marceau plays the role of Emmanuèle. Marceau first made history at the Festival de Cannes when she came as a performer, but also for her first film (L'Aube à l'envers, Un Certain Regard, 1995) and her participation in the Feature Film Jury in 2015.
Like her, the rest of the cast is well-versed in the Cannes experience, starting with André Dussollier and his nine roles in films selected at Cannes, Géraldine Pailhas, already present alongside François Ozon in Jeune et Jolie (in Competition in 2013) and Charlotte Rampling, a loyal collaborator since Under the Sand in 2000, the film that first brought the director to public attention.
