Mylène – La Grande finale is a feature film documentary about Mylène Taillon Viger’s struggle to obtain proper health care in a system where women experience resistance and neglect (see above picture). What began as a quest to obtain medicaly assisted suicide in Switzerland, after suffering from more than a decade of debilitating chronic pain, turned into a quest for the right to die with dignity after the discovery of an incurable bone cancer. The film is based on 12 hours of video interviews conducted by Denis McCready over the course of 5 years (2016-2020) and features Mylène’s selfportrait photographic archive, her extensive social media activity and her visual art.

In October 2020, she finaly claimed victory in her fight to get end-of-life treatments with dignity: she was given a date for her medicaly assisted suicide. I was to visit her a few days before, film a final interview and collect her entire digital legacy, but her body couldn’t take it any longer; Mylène passed away naturally just a few days later.

Status: pre-development

Directed and produced by Denis McCready

Top image – Mylène in the emergency ward during one of her numerous visits prior to her cancer diagnosis.