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CHRONIC

By Michel FRANCO

Drama - Completed 2015

David is a nurse who works with terminally ill patients. Efficient and dedicated to his profession, he develops strong and even intimate relationships with each person he cares for. But outside of his work David is ineffectual, awkward, and reserved. It is clear that he needs each patient as much as

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Cannes 2015

BEST SCREENPLAY

- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- MEXICO, FRANCE
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 92 mn
- Director(s)
- Michel FRANCO
- Writer(s)
- Michel FRANCO
- Cast
- Tim ROTH
- Synopsis
- David is a nurse who works with terminally ill patients. Efficient and dedicated to his profession, he develops strong and even intimate relationships with each person he cares for. But outside of his work David is ineffectual, awkward, and reserved. It is clear that he needs each patient as much as they need him.
  
  David suffers from a chronic depression. Throughout this story, as we follow David from one patient to another, we discover a past from which he has been hiding from.
  
  For years David has been carrying guilt and remorse. The weight becomes less and less bearable, to the extent that David must return and face his past in order for him to heal. He will have to find a way out…

CHRONIC

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