"C'est la vie" is one of these films that touches deep in our hearts from beginning to end. What can be expected when a person is undeceived by Medicine? When the word "HOPE" becomes just a Dictionary's description? With no sense to the rest of this person's life? The story is summarized in a "Maison" ("House") where are reunited people in the same conditions of the main character (Dimitri), portrayed with vivid intensity by Jacques Dutronc. By his side, accompanying him, we find Suzane, young mother who decided to offer part of her time in assistance of terminal patients interned in that institution, portrayed by Sandrine Bonnaire. Jean-Pierre Améris, the Director, takes the spectator to face an astounding contrast: one full of life - Suzane - versus the bitter Dimitri. However, she manages to lift Dimitri's spirit, taking him to situations where the roles are inverted, such as that small plane's flight which he pilots himself and then for a few seconds he loses conscience... In the end of that "madness" Dimitri says something like: "Now you've seen what it feels like to fear dying..." Poignant movie - NOT for the average spectator - in which we are given a truthful learning on how to treat people, relatives or not, in a terminal phase of life. In a scale of 1 to 10, I vote: 8 (excellent).
Review of C'est la vie
