JACKIE THE WOLF

By Tuki JENCQUEL

FILM HARBOUR - as SALES

Documentary - Completed 2023

At 75, in good health and living a charmed life, Jackie is determined to end it on her own terms. Through a series of intimate conversations, her son questions whether he can or should dissuade her.

Festivals
& Awards

Hot Docs 2023
DOK.fest Munich 2023
Rome International Documentary Film Festival 2023
Budapest IDF 2024
DocPoint Helsinki 2024
Movies That Matter 2024
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Second film, Family
    • Countries
    • GERMANY, FRANCE
    • Languages
    • FRENCH, ENGLISH, GERMAN
    • Duration
    • 93 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Tuki JENCQUEL
    • Producer(s)
    • Andy COHEN (AC Films), Estelle ROBIN YOU (Point du Jour – Les films du Balibari), Tuki JENCQUEL (Orinokia Filmproduktion)
    • Synopsis
    • Paris, summer 2018. Jacqueline Jencquel (74) lives a comfortable life in a splendid apartment in Saint-Germain. Apart from a few age-related ailments, she's in good health. And yet Jackie has decided to die. A mother, grandmother and dedicated right-to-die activist, she sparks a media frenzy by announcing that she will end herlife in January 2020.

      As the clock ticks, she faces the camera of one of her three sons. Taboos are broken in an honest exchange about death, love, desire and motherhood. Though determined to go ahead, she postpones her final act, in order to enjoy one last spring, one last summer. But when Jackie learns of the imminent birth of a grandchild, she begins to waver and she pushes back “the date” yet again.

      Seizing on this grace period, Jackie’s son records a series of increasingly meaningful encounters with his mother as he struggles to accept her decision and to learn to let go.