RÉPARER LES VIVANTS/HEAL THE LIVING (Katell Quillévéré 2016)

This is a movie about a heart transplant. But that sounds like a TV afternoon picture, and not such a humanistic and sophisticated work of art as Katell Quillévéré has made of it. It's a double story, first of a 17-year-old blond surfer who's rendered brain dead in a car crash, and second the middle-aged woman with severe heart disease who gets his heart. The key figure is the "coordinator" played by a boyish-looking but wonderfully gentle and sympathetic Taher Raim (of Audiard's A Prophet. US release coming. This, like Ozon's Frantz, was even better, and clearer in its fine construction, the second time at the Lincoln Center press screening.