Before What Comes After

Before What Comes After (Le Dernier souffle, 2025) is a French drama by Costa-Gavras you can watch online on iFILM. A palliative-care physician, Augustin Masset, crosses paths with a famous novelist, Fabrice Toussaint, and the two men fall into a long conversation about how a person meets the end.

The doctor spends his days at the bedsides of the dying. The writer arrives looking for material and finds something harder instead — his own fear of death, met head-on for the first time. Their meetings unfold as a string of quiet, deeply personal exchanges about pain, dignity, and what is left behind. Denis Podalydès and Kad Merad lead, with Charlotte Rampling, Hiam Abbass, and Ángela Molina alongside them.

Costa-Gavras directs — the man behind Z and Missing, who spent half a century on hard political cinema and, near ninety, turned to the plainest and most frightening subject of all. He keeps the tone almost documentary, no melodrama. This one is for patient viewers: it trades action for thought, and rewards anyone willing to sit with the inevitable for a hundred minutes. Stream Before What Comes After (2025) online on iFILM.