Boyero’s criticism that could be the last film of a director he respects: “It is didactic and honest” | Culture

At 92, the film director Costa-Gavras Signs The last sigha free adaptation of a book by the French intellectual Régis Debray on euthanasia and palliative care in today’s society, released on Friday, April 24.

In the words of the film critic Carlos Boyero, the film by the Franco-Griego filmmaker is starring “a notorious success and philosopher writer who has diagnosed that the progressively irreversible disease has been installed in his body (…) and seeks knowledge, refuge and advice in a doctor as instructed as generous, as intelligent as comprehensive, a real humanist.”

“The relationship of both at the final crossroads is well told,” according to El País expert, which considers the film as a “consistent” exercise of Costa-Gavras in what could be his last work.

“Anguish appears, terror, the desire that the outcome is as short as it is painless, the need to be next to the beings they love and for those who are loved (…),” Boyero writes about a movie “Didactic and honest” in which “Angela Molina has a remarkable appearance interpreting the dying.”

“It is a film consistent with the themes and purposes that have always interested in Costa-Gavras, someone who always deserves respect,” the expert ends his criticism. (You can read it complete here: ‘The last sigh’: old man, although always recognizable Costa-Gavras)