“I’m always surprised that we constantly talk about dying with dignity, but living with dignity gets so little attention. » When her father, Roger, receives a diagnosis of mixed dementia – Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia – actress and screenwriter Marika Lhoumeau sees one of her greatest fears materialize: that of being erased from human memory who raised her. In the facial features of the woman at his bedside, Roger instead sees Margot, a childhood friend who has long since disappeared from his life. Marika Lhoumeau continues the process started in the podcast Becoming Margot and embraces the role of her father’s friend to rewrite the ties that unite her to the latter and reflect on our collective relationship to illness and old age. Through one’s experience, one enters an unsuspected horizon, where incoherence and loss of bearings give way to shocking flashes of truth and remind us of the importance of anchoring oneself in the present moment and celebrating the resistance of love, however imperfect it may be.
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