Doctor Kruger dreams to insert “the suicide in modernity”. He offers to his patients the service of a private clinic where one can die in all peace, champagne glass to the hand. But in the private clinic of “ideal death”, nothing occurs as envisaged.
Acting
Benoît Poelvoorde's magnificent meltdown as failed customer.
Direction
Barco's clinical framing makes death feel like IKEA assembly.
Writing
Dialogue so dry it needs a hydration warning.
Director
Olias Barco
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Belgian cinema's obsession with death and bureaucracy peaks here — think Dardenne brothers' evil twin.
Barco shot the clinic in an actual abandoned spa, lending authentic institutional dread to every frame.
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