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The veteran director, Costa-Gavras (Donostia Award 2019), presented Le dernier souffle yesterday in the Official Section. Few topics are as pertinent today in terms of opening a public debate as the right to a dignified death, and this was the issue that his film is structured around. Le dernier souffle, like the rest of his work, is based on a personal commitment: “I could never shoot a film about something that I was indifferent to. At 91 years of age and with death looming on the horizon, it is normal that I often ask myself: how will all this end? When the time comes, will I be able to end my days with dignity?” These doubts were fuelled by reading Le dernier souffle, a book by the philosopher Regis Debray and the doctor Claude Grange that had inspired Costa-Gavras to shoot the film that he presented yesterday at the Festival: “The book presented a series of stories about people who had been in palliative care. The variety of profiles that it contained gave me the idea of building up a script around these.”
For the filmmaker, “we live in a society that turns its back on death; when I told someone about the idea for this film, people were appalled! And yet I believe that we must be prepared to face that moment with dignity.”
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