The film "De son vivant" features Catherine Deneuve, Benoît Magimel and Cécile de France. The film was screened for the first time in Cannes (out of competition). It is a poignant drama about the denial of a son condemned too young by illness. The suffering of a mother in the face of the unacceptable, and the doctor. One year, four seasons, for three to "dance" with the disease, tame it, and understand what it means: to die while alive.
The other film on the screen is Marion Hansen-Love's "Bergman Island", in competition at Cannes, which takes place in summer on the Swedish island of Faro, where the great filmmaker Ingmar Bergman lived ...