yes, francois ozon made sitcoms, terrific director.mmanuele, who's father has a stroke and then says and tells her, i want you to help me to die. she had a conflicted relationship with him in the past. we see flashbacks to her childhood where he was brutish with her. but she loves him but she can't refuse his request but to agrees to help him risks illegality, obviously, an inevitable trip to switzerland. the subject matter opens itself up to sentimentality but there is nothing about that. it is about spiky people with spiky relationships dealing with difficult subject matter but it's often funny and it's very moving. it's never melodramatic but it's very evenhanded. and it's very frank and again, it's dealing with a subject that's not the easiest subject for cinema to deal with but it does it really well. and terrific performances from the entire ensemble cast and at no point does it feel the need to do anything sentimental or tear—jerking, which is not saying it's not moving or upsetting but it's also funny and life—affirming. do you