A mother begs her son to end her life — and he actually considers it.
Frans Buyens's moving and inventive film is based on his own autobiographical novel, which deals in the most sensitive terms possible with the subject of euthanasia.
Acting
Dora van der Groen's volcanic restraint as a trapped woman.
Direction
Buyens treats euthanasia as lived experience, not debate.
Writing
Dialogue that sounds improvised because pain doesn't rehearse.
Director
Frans Buyens
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Belgium legalized euthanasia in 2002, making this 1992 film radically ahead of its cultural moment.
Director Frans Buyens cast his own mother figure in spirit, Dora van der Groen, who had played his on-screen mother twice before.
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