In the twilight of their life, Odile and Marcel still love each other. Affected by an incurable disease, Odile must be hospitalized. Feeling the end of Odile so close, the couple decided to commit suicide, so not to be separated. The time of a last Sunday.
Acting
Roussel and Personne — decades of tenderness in every silence.
Direction
Achard turns Sunday lunch into a funeral march.
Writing
The casualness of the plan guts you slowly.
Director
Laurent Achard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during France's heated 2013 debate on end-of-life legislation, the film weaponizes domestic realism to bypass political abstraction.
The titular table becomes a character itself — witness to generations of meals, now silent accomplice to a final pact.
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