Heal the Living

Heal the Living (French: Réparer les vivants) is a 2016 French-Belgian drama film. It was directed by Katell Quillévéré, written by Quillévéré and Gilles Taurand, and scored by Alexandre Desplat, and stars Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Dorval, Bouli Lanners, and Kool Shen. Based on the novel Réparer les vivants (Mend the Living) by Maylis de Kerangal, Heal the Living interweaves three stories connected to each other via an organ transplant.[3] The film was presented in the Horizons section at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival.[4][5]

Heal the Living
Film poster
Réparer les vivants
Directed byKatell Quillévéré
Produced byDavid Thion
Justin Taurand
Philippe Martin
Screenplay byKatell Quillévéré
Gilles Taurand
Based onRéparer les vivants (Mend the Living)
by Maylis de Kerangal
StarringTahar Rahim
Emmanuelle Seigner
Anne Dorval
Bouli Lanners
Kool Shen
Music byAlexandre Desplat
CinematographyTom Harari
Edited byThomas Marchand
Production
company
Les Films du Bélier
Les Films Pelléas
Distributed byMars Films (France)
Release date
  • 4 September 2016 (2016-09-04) (Venice)
  • 2 November 2016 (2016-11-02) (France)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryFrance
Belgium
LanguageFrench
Budget$6.5 million[1]
Box office$2.2 million[2]

Cast

Critical response

Heal the Living has a 92% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 59 reviews, with an average rating of 7.6/10,[6] and an 82/100 on Metacritic based on 12 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[7]

Variety described the film as "sublimely compassionate, heart-crushing".[8] Screendaily said the film is "an emotionally satisfying, cinematically deft look at interwoven fates...which knits together quietly luminous performances".[9]

Accolades
Award / Film Festival Category Recipients and nominees Result
César Awards Best Adaptation Katell Quillévéré and Gilles Taurand Nominated

References
  1. "Heal the Living". jpboxoffice.com.
  2. "Heal the Living". Box Office Mojo.
  3. "Heal the Living". TIFF.
  4. "La Biennale di Venezia - Réparer les vivants". Venezia. Archived from the original on 2016-08-27. Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  5. "European films invited to leap across the pond to Toronto". Cineuropa. 12 August 2016.
  6. "Heal the Living (Réparer les vivants) (2017)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
  7. "Heal the Living Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved February 14, 2018.
  8. "Film Review: 'Heal the Living'". Variety. 4 September 2016.
  9. "'Heal The Living': Venice Review". Screendaily. 3 September 2016.


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