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Jan 16, 2014 · First off: Katell Quillevere. “Katell has an amazing gift for storytelling. She’s not trying to show off, impress or confuse. Whatever your state of mind when you start her movies, ...
F or her third feature - after the excellent Un poison violent (2010) and somewhat less impressive Suzanne (2013) - director Katell Quillévéré takes on her greatest challenge yet by adapting Maylis de Kerangal's 2013 novel Réparer les vivants, a moving tale that received acclaim for its sensitive handling of the problematic issue of organ transfer.
The film's title (lifted from Un poison violent, c'est ça l'amour, a song by Serge Gainsbourg) is aptly chosen. Love is indeed a poison, a potent metaphorical hemlock which extinguishes something in the soul and leaves its victim eternally stricken with a lingering desolation. One of the strengths of Katell Quillevere's film is how sensitively ...
Heal the Living. Heal the Living ( French: Réparer les vivants) is a 2016 drama film directed by Katell Quillévéré from a screenplay she co-wrote with Gilles Taurand, based on the 2013 novel Réparer les vivants ( Mend the Living) by Maylis de Kerangal. It stars Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Dorval, Bouli Lanners and Kool Shen.
"Between Suzanne and Un Poisson Violent, even though some things have changed in my life (I became a mother) I feel a real continuity, through their themes : love as a trigger for emancipation, relationships between the dominating idea of the family and that of freedom...
Apr 14, 2017 · Perhaps the most memorable image in “Heal the Living,” the intensely moving medical drama from French writer-director Katell Quillévéré, is of a heart beating in a teenage boy’s chest.
May 23, 2023 · 23/05/2023 - CANNES 2023: The director explains her approach to a 20-year period film in post-war France telling an atypical love story. French director Katell Quillévéré explains her film Along Came Love [+. ], presented in the Cannes Première section at the 76th Cannes Film Festival. Cineuropa: Along Came Love is a melodrama, a genre you ...
