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

[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

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

Featuring a lovely score by Alexandre Desplat, Quillvr's film succeeds as a melancholy celebration of the invisible threads that bind us. Worth seeking out.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 13, 2017

This truly is cinema to make the heart beat faster.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 30, 2017

Throughout, Quillvr keeps asking her cast for the impossible, and gets it.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 27, 2017

This is a superlative French entry into the organ transplant movie sub-genre (Seven Pounds, 21 Grams, John Q, Dirty Pretty Things). In this case, however, the beauty resides in what the film doesn't do, rather than what it should.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 27, 2017

You're nagged by the sense that Quillvr the director is a little more brilliant than Quillvr the co-writer.

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

This is a film full of grace notes -- self-contained scenes that play like mini-symphonies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 26, 2017

It suppresses the cinematic staples of romance and melodrama and does away with dramatic coincidence and contrivance to mine emotion from cold, ritualised reality.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 26, 2017

It's a film with emotional force, though less nuance and complexity than Quillvr's other work.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 26, 2017

What stays with you is the miracle of how we're all connected in a million different ways.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 25, 2017

This is deeply human filmmaking.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 14, 2017

In the background, Alexandre Desplat's swoony score piles on the sentiment, but it's all just empty calories; what this movie desperately needs is conflict.

| Apr 13, 2017

Unusual in its story, unexpected in its structure, made with an unerring instinct for emotional connection, "Heal the Living" wallops us without ever overplaying its hand.

| Apr 13, 2017

At once sorrowful and optimistic, Heal the Living captures the terrifying fragility of life, even as it also recognizes the strength derived from the many connections - organic, emotional, and associative - that bind and define us.

| Apr 12, 2017

Precision writing and editing (the latter courtesy of Thomas Marchand), as well as an impressive grasp of the power of mise-en-scene, come together to deliver resonant scenes even if we don't know the characters very well.

| Apr 11, 2017

The film allows the sorrows of losing a life and the joys of saving it to remain congruent.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 9, 2017

Katell Quillvr's superb third feature is a wrenching medical drama that blends dazzling formal polish with rawest emotion.

| Sep 4, 2016