Heroes Never Die (2019)

Les Héros Ne Meurent Jamais opens in a stunning way. A man is accosted in the street and the person yells and says You are dead. You died on such and such of a date. The man who is accosted is disturbed by this. The date he is supposed to have died is his birthday. He and a few friends go on an odyssey to find his old life, traveling to Bosnia outside Srebrenica. From here Aude Léa Rapin's film becomes about mourning and the Bosnian war and the desire to do kind things for others. I liked this a lot. It's quirky and profound. There's an entire metacinematic element that I don't understand, but it works just fine.

This movie was released in the US as Heroes Don't Die not Heroes Never Die, which I think is rather odd. There's no real reason to mistranslate the title. In fact, it's much better when translated accurately.

I watched Les Héros Ne Meurent Jamais on MUBI. It premiered on MUBI on January 21, 2021. The Academy of Motion Pictures is counting January 2021 as 2020, and so I am too. So Heroes Don't Die is a 2020 movie.