The Heart That Beats

The Heart That Beats (2010)

Ce cœur qui bat

Hotel-Dieu Hospital in Montreal, one of the oldest in North America. In the emergency ward, patients await their diagnosis, foreshadowed by the most personal questions from doctors. Others don't have the luxury of worrying about such things. They suffer in pain, fight to live or simply want it all to end, despairing at the body's inability to do what it's supposed to. We cannot face disease, much less face those who suffer from it. But what's left of the human once laid out on the operating table, dreading bad news or anticipating the end? Something moving, feeling, loving. The heart that beats.

Date of release
2010-11-10
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Philippe Lesage

Interesting facts

The Heart That Beats is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Philippe Lesage and released in 2010. Inspired by his own stay in a hospital after undergoing heart surgery, the film is a meditation on the human condition which profiles the suffering of patients in the emergency ward at Montreal's Hôtel-Dieu hospital, and the dedication of health care workers who strive to relieve it.

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