LA VANITÉ
Lionel Baier

O.V. French

Vanity: an intense feeling of self-satisfaction or, in art history, a composition centred on a skull, representing each human being’s inevitable mortality. The title’s polysemy aptly evokes the character of David Miller, a terminally ill architect in his 70s who decides to end his life in a motel room. He requires the services of an assisted-suicide organization. Esperanza, played by the Almodóvar favourite, Carmen Maura, is assigned to help him, but Swiss law demands that...