The story is everything it's meant to be, a mixture of hope and sadness with no surprises to deter from a story worth telling.

| Feb 4, 2020

The acting and character development are strong, adding greatly to the emotionally power and individuality of the personal stories involved.

| Apr 26, 2019

It's a wonderful film that balances life and death and it will tug at your heartstrings and stay with you for a very long time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2018

Quillévéré imposes an almost genre movie hero status on all the selfless personnel required to enact a heart transplant with the necessary urgency.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 3, 2018

The procedural tone and detailed surgery shots may not be for everyone, but this is a simple and effective story of love between family, friends and strangers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2018

Heal the Living assembles an array of sensitive performances, but it takes place on a more metaphysical plane. Its characters often seem to have stepped outside the normal flow of time.

| Feb 14, 2018

Quillévéré refuses to look away, forcing the viewer to expand their consciousness beyond the limitations of their own circumstances and reconsider the boundaries between life and death.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 29, 2017

"Heal the Living" does not break new dramatic ground, but it is an engrossing film - even if its vivid medical moments are not for the faint of heart.

| Dec 19, 2017

The filmmaker achieves at least a few remarkable milestones. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 14, 2017

If melodrama as a genre is concerned with the suffering of the heart on a metaphorical level, French director Katell Quillvr's third feature Heal the Living takes the matter in an inventive turn, rather literally.

| Nov 7, 2017

The mood is given to almost procedural realism, but Quillevere's technique is expansive, beginning with an early morning surf that is rendered as an evocative, joyous communion.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 10, 2017

At times it strains a little too hard, but generally, and especially amongst the performances, there is clarity, precision and taste. I suspect that if you've ever given or received an organ you'll find the film respectful and rewarding.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 5, 2017

Heal the Living is a French-Belgian drama with the heart in the right place.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 29, 2017

[Heal the Living] explores the ever-vulnerable body, the social institution of medicine and how individuals stand in relation to each.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 27, 2017

[Heal the Living] tilts a little too far toward New Age-iness toward the end, but the mix of melancholy and medicine is wonderfully balanced.

| Aug 9, 2017

A mix between hypnotic melodrama and a clinical fantasy that reminds us that the body is more than a deep cavity. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2017

[Heal the Living] is a refreshing hospital drama that manages to shun the genre's trappings of melodrama in favour of a more complex and emotive story.

| Aug 3, 2017

The film is deflated degenerating into a bad advertisement about organ donation that forgets its characters to the detriment of a message as well-intentioned as forced in its execution. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 17, 2017

By the end of the film, we've lived in this system, watched it operate, moved through its nooks and crannies. The characters bring it alive, but it's Quillvr's camera that makes us understand what this system means and how it works together.

| Jun 29, 2017

Visually extraordinary when it needs to be, and with a laser-sharp focus on its characters' quirks, ethical dilemmas and emotional complications, this French film tells the story of a heart transplant.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 15, 2017