''Heal the Living'' () is a 2016

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film directed by

Katell Quillévéré Katell Quillévéré (; born 30 January 1980) is a French filmmaker. Early life Quillévéré is the daughter of an IT worker and science teacher. She was born and brought up in the Ivory Coast until the age of five. She comes from a Breton fa ...

from a screenplay she co-wrote with Gilles Taurand, based on the 2013 novel ''Réparer les vivants'' (''Mend the Living'') by

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. It stars

Tahar Rahim Tahar Rahim (born 4 July 1981) is a French actor. His breakthrough performance was in the 2009 French film '' A Prophet'', for which he won the César Award for Best Actor and Most Promising Actor. He then starred as FBI agent Ali Soufan in t ...

Emmanuelle Seigner Emmanuelle Seigner (; born 22 June 1966) is a French actress and singer. She is known for her roles in '' The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'' (2007), '' The Ninth Gate'' (1999) and '' Frantic'' (1988). She has been nominated for a César Award ...

Anne Dorval Anne Dorval (; born November 8, 1960) is a French Canadian television, stage, and film actress. She is known for her work with Xavier Dolan that includes appearing in five of his films, '' I Killed My Mother'' (2009), '' Heartbeats'' (2010), '' La ...

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and

Kool Shen Bruno Lopes (, ; born 9 February 1966), better known as Kool Shen, is a French rapper, actor and producer, with Portuguese and Breton origins. He is also a break dancer and a graffiti artist. He is a co-founder of Suprême NTM and one of the ...

. ''Heal the Living'' interweaves three stories connected to each other via an organ transplant. The film was presented in the Horizons section at the

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Cast

Critical response

''Heal the Living'' has a 92% approval rating on

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based on 59 reviews, with an average rating of 7.6/10, and an 82/100 on

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based on 12 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". ''

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'' described the film as "sublimely compassionate, heart-crushing". ''

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'' said the film is "an emotionally satisfying, cinematically deft look at interwoven fates...which knits together quietly luminous performances".

Accolades

References

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* 2016 films 2016 drama films 2010s French-language films Belgian drama films Films about organ transplantation Films based on French novels Films directed by Katell Quillévéré Films scored by Alexandre Desplat French drama films Medical-themed films French-language Belgian films 2010s French films 2010s Belgian films French-language drama films Films produced by David Thion Mars Films films {{2010s-Belgium-film-stub