38th edition
17-25 january 2026

La Vie des morts

Arnaud Desplechin

Image La Vie des morts
France
1990 Fiction 53 min
Patrick tried to committ suicide. His family gathers in the Mac Gillis'house. They organise the rooms, the extra beds, they talk, the sream, they argue. In the hospital, Patrick is still between life and death.
With : Marianne Denicourt, Bernard Ballet, Roch Leibovici, Laurence Cote, Hélène Roussel, Emmanuelle Devos
Screenplay : Arnaud Desplechin, Pascale Ferran, Emmanuel Salinger
Image : Eric Gauthier
Sound : Olivier de Nesles
Production : Odessa Films
Born in 1960, Arnaud Desplechin studied directing and camera at IDHEC. After he left school with its diploma in 1984, he began as a cameraman on short films and advertising films, and then on the Nico Papadakis' long feature "La Photo". He works on many scripts, among them "Un monde sans pitié" by Eric Rochant, and was the director of shorts films. In 1989, he obtained the "l'Avance sur recettes" for his first long feature'script "La Sentinelle".