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Death Does Not Exist

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After a failed armed attack on wealthy landowners, Hélène abandons her companions and flees into the forest. Manon, one of her friends and accomplices, returns to haunt her. Hélène has to revisit her convictions and choices, in a valley where metamorphoses and great upheavals disrupt the natural order of things.

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Isaac Feldberg RogerEbert.com With his minimalist, hand-drawn animation, Dufour-Laperrière blurs boundaries between individuals and backgrounds to produce haunting, porous tableaux in which only movement and action expose character. May 26, 2025 Full Review Chase Hutchinson TheWrap Though “Death Does Not Exist” is a rather short feature, running only 72 minutes, it is a film of big ideas and expansive existential questions. Even when the presentation is simple, it carries a quietly poetic power. May 15, 2025 Full Review Maxance Vincent Awards Radar Frequently, I would stop listening to the cyclical dialogues just to observe the artistry on display, which is so deeply moving that one would’ve hoped the film was entirely dialogue-free. Rated: 2.5/4 Jul 19, 2025 Full Review Sarah Musnicky But Why Tho? A Geek Community Death Does Not Exist (La Mort N’existe Pas) operates in the realm of the existential, where an internal debate as old as time is given new life....While the philosophical wears thin, the inevitable is brought into full focus. Rated: 7/10 Jul 18, 2025 Full Review Latoya Austin Movies We Texted About Perhaps history might be kind to Death Does Not Exist and remember it as a film that was lauded for daring to experiment and tackle current prevalent issues ... Jul 9, 2025 Full Review Michael Scoular In Review Online Death Does Not Exist stands out as an impressive display of animation labor, but its narrative arc is as unmotivating and prescriptively moral as any children’s parable. Jun 1, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews

Movie Info

Synopsis After a failed armed attack on wealthy landowners, Hélène abandons her companions and flees into the forest. Manon, one of her friends and accomplices, returns to haunt her. Hélène has to revisit her convictions and choices, in a valley where metamorphoses and great upheavals disrupt the natural order of things.
Director
Félix Dufour-Laperrière
Producer
Nicolas Dufour-Laperrière, Félix Dufour-Laperrière, Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron
Screenwriter
Félix Dufour-Laperrière
Production Co
Embuscade Films, Miyu Productions
Genre
Animation
Original Language
French
Runtime
1h 12m