Yes, you might feel like you’ve taken this journey – or something like it – before, but writer-director Enya Baroux’s campervan ride into life’s sunset has more than enough heart and feeling to sustain the trip.

A still from Enya Baroux’s film Bon Voyage, Marie

Aged 80, widowed and diagnosed with inoperable cancer, Marie (Hélène Vincent) has determined to end her life on her own terms. She plans to travel to an end-of-life clinic in Switzerland, where voluntary assisted dying has long been legal. Not long after this film was made, the subject was hotly debated in the French parliament. A close vote eventually allowed for it, but only under some of the strictest conditions in Europe for terminally ill people wishing to end their lives at a time of their own choosing. With that in mind, Bon Voyage, Marie feels as much a call to action as it does a family drama.

Reflecting society’s difficulty in talking about death in any form, Marie is unable to inform her own family of her predicament and wishes. Even if she could, however, we soon come to suspect they would have been...