Plan 75

Chie Hayakawa - Japan - 2023 - 113 min.
met Chieko Baishô, Hayato Isomura, Stefanie Arianne,...
Filmfesival Cannes 2022: Camera d’Or

Japan, in een dystopische nabije toekomst. Vanwege de extreme vergrijzing in het land moedigt de overheid met het programma ‘Plan 75’ senioren aan om vrijwillig te kiezen voor euthanasie. De overheid biedt met het plan een comfortabel laatste hoofdstuk van het leven aan met persoonlijke begeleiding richting het eindpunt. De bejaarde Michi, Plan 75 verkoper Hiromu en zorgverlener Maria worden ieder op hun eigen manier geconfronteerd met de keuze tussen leven en dood.

Een straffe aanklacht tegen een wereld die mensen als wegwerpartikel ziet, maar tegelijk ook een emotionele film die reflecteert over leven en dood en oproept tot meer zorg voor oudere mensen.

FR
Japon, futur proche. En raison du vieillissement extrême de la population, le gouvernement encourage les personnes âgées à recourir à l’euthanasie dans le cadre du programme “Plan 75”. Grâce à ce programme, le gouvernement offre un dernier chapitre de vie confortable avec un accompagnement personnel vers la fin de la vie. La personne âgée Michi, le vendeur du Plan 75 Hiromu et l’aide-soignante Maria sont confrontés chacun à leur manière au choix entre la vie et la mort.

EN
In a near dystopian future, Japan’s government launches PLAN 75, a program encouraging the elderly to terminate their own lives to relieve its rapidly aging population’s social and economic burdens. In Chie Hayakawa’s remarkable and sensitive feature film debut, the lives of three ordinary citizens intersect in this new reality as they confront the crushing callousness of a world ready to dispose of those no longer deemed valuable. Legendary Japanese actress Chieko Baishō stars as a 78-year-old Michi who considers signing up for the program after losing her meager but fulfilling hotel job and the means to live independently. A young Plan 75 salesman Himoru (Hayato Isomura) initially believes in the program’s benefits and serves as the human face of the program. And Maria (Stephanie Arianne), a Filipino care worker living overseas, reluctantly accepts a position with PLAN 75 to send money home to her ailing daughter. On the surface, the plan and its hawkers exude a kindness that serves as the film’s chilling vision of bureaucratic indifference and our increasing loss of interconnectedness. However, Hayakawa’s view is far from grim, as these characters soon learn to fully reckon with their own lives and what it truly means to live.

★

”[Chie Hayakawa’s] direction is stately and considered, allowing space to savour little details along the way…” - ★★★★ The Financial Times

“This is an ultra-delicate whisper of a drama… And yet the anger that fringes such bittersweet moments gradually accumulates into a palpable and lingering rage at how good we’ve become at branding cruelty as compassion.” - B+ indieWire

“This dystopian debut about aging and euthanasia in Japan is moving and understated. [...] Plan 75 may seem like it’s about ageing, but more accurately it is about the importance of community — the hope that someone will remember us after we’re gone.” - Screen Daily

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