How do you answer when your father asks you to help him die? François Ozon's Everything Went Fine, a French-Belgian drama from 2021, spends 113 minutes inside that question without ever pretending it has a clean answer.
What is Everything Went Fine about?
A phone call sends Emmanuelle rushing to a hospital. André, her father, is eighty-five and has just suffered a stroke; when she reaches his bedside he is weak, half-paralysed and frightened of what his body has become. He is also lucid enough to make a request. He wants her help to bring his life to an end, on his own terms and on his own schedule. Emmanuelle is caught between two duties that pull in opposite directions: the daughter who wants her father to live, and the daughter who has been asked, plainly and repeatedly, to respect his wishes. What follows is less a countdown than a negotiation, conducted in hospital corridors, family kitchens and quiet car rides, as she weighs love, loyalty, guilt and the stubborn personality of a man who has never made anything easy for her.
About the cast
Sophie Marceau and André Dussollier lead the cast, joined by Géraldine Pailhas, Hanna Schygulla, Charlotte Rampling, Grégory Gadebois, Éric Caravaca and Jacques Nolot. It is a roster of veteran French and European screen actors, and Ozon builds the film around long dialogue scenes that give them room to work in close-up rather than around incident.
Context & significance
Everything Went Fine belongs to the catalogue's drama section and comes from a director whose filmography ranges widely in tone; here the register is restrained and observational. The subject, a parent asking an adult child to assist in ending his life, places the film within a wider European conversation about autonomy at the end of life, but the story is told from inside one family rather than as an argument. Practical questions sit beside emotional ones: what is legally possible, what is medically honest, and what a daughter can bring herself to do. The 2021 co-production between France and Belgium runs just under two hours and keeps its focus narrow, following Emmanuelle's point of view almost throughout.
Watching Everything Went Fine on Ktime
K-Time carries Everything Went Fine with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so you can either hear the film in Farsi or keep the original French audio and read along. Streaming requires a K-Time account login, while this page is free to browse. The service is designed for Persian-speaking viewers abroad, with a Farsi interface throughout.