My Life Without Me

A classic cinematic theme—a protagonist learns they are terminally ill and decides to accomplish certain things before death—presented in a tender and intelligent interpretation by Isabelle Coixet (The Secret Life of Words).

What’s important to do in the remaining months of life? The list of a terminally ill young woman is both simple and complex: visit her father in prison, “do something with her hair,” fall in love for the first time in conscious adulthood, record birthday messages for her daughters up to their eighteenth birthday, and, finally, find her husband a new partner and her children a new mother.

 The session will be led by philosopher and film scholar (and co-founder of a cinema) Varya Vlasova.