Dying Alive

Montreal, a multigenerational house loaded with books, paintings and knick-knacks, so many memories revived on the evening of one last Christmas Eve. Luc, a retired pediatrician and teacher in his eighties, lives with his son François, a pediatrician like his father, and François' wife Esther. Suffering and physically diminished, the old man has now decided to end his life. In a corrosive and sensitive verbal joust, he asks his son to end his days in privacy. The son then takes him on an existential and circus-like journey through the streets of Montreal where the father is supposed to go to his final destination, a hospital where he will be confronted with his ultimate wish: the choice between the finality of medical aid to die or a return to square one, the small pleasures of what remains of his life, alive.

Cast

Marcel Sabourin Luc Benoît Brière François Élise Guilbault Esther Dorothée Berryman Pierrette Stéphane Jacques Louise Forestier Françoise (voice)

Caroline Quach Collègue

Jean-François Chicoine Père Noël (uncredited)

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