As Long as You've Got Your Health

1966 French film

As Long as You've Got Your Health
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Pierre Étaix
Written by	Pierre Étaix Jean-Claude Carrière
Produced by	Paul Claudon
Cinematography	Jean Boffety
Edited by	Henri Lanoë Raymond Lewin Roger Salesse Andrée Werlin Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte
Music by	René Giner Luce Klein Jean Paillaud
Release date	25 February 1966 (1966-02-25)
Running time	65 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

As Long as You've Got Your Health (French: Tant qu'on a la santé) is a 1966 French comedy film directed by and starring Pierre Étaix.

Film

The anthology film consists of four separate stories: a man reads about vampires all night, people leave their workplaces and try to find a seat in a cinema, people suffer from stress and consult a psychiatrist who is the most stressed of them all, and a group of people visit a small forest for different reasons.

Cast

Pierre Étaix as Pierre
Denise Péronne
Sabine Sun
Claude Massot
Véra Valmont
Émile Coryn
Roger Trapp
Alain Janey

Release

The film was released in France on 25 February 1966. It competed at the 1966 San Sebastián International Film Festival where it won the Silver Seashell. In 2013 it was released on home media by The Criterion Collection together with four other Étaix films.

References

"Tant qu'on a la santé". AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 2016-01-10.
"14 edition. 1966 Awards" (in Spanish). San Sebastián International Film Festival. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
Kehr, Dave (2013-04-28). "The Dark Side of Innocence". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-01-10.

v t e Films directed by Pierre Étaix
Heureux Anniversaire (1962) The Suitor (1963) Yo Yo (1965) As Long as You've Got Your Health (1966) The Great Love (1969) Land of Milk and Honey (1971)

v t e Jean-Claude Carrière
Films written	The Suitor (1962) Heureux Anniversaire (1962) Diary of a Chambermaid (1964) Yo Yo (1965) Viva Maria! (1965) Attack of the Robots (1966) The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966) As Long as You've Got Your Health (1966) Hotel Paradiso (1966) The Thief of Paris (1967) Belle de Jour (1967) Pour un amour lointain (1968) The Great Love (1969) The Milky Way (1969) La Piscine (1969) Borsalino (1970) Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide (1971) The Wedding Ring (1971) Taking Off (1971) The Outside Man (1972) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) Liza (1972) The Monk (1972) The Phantom of Liberty (1974) The Woman in Red Boots (1974) Serious as Pleasure (1975) La Chair de l'orchidée (1975) Weak Spot (1975) Scrambled Eggs (1976) Le Gang (1977) That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) Butterfly on the Shoulder (1978) Surprise Sock (1978) Jigsaw (1979) The Tin Drum (1979) Return to the Beloved (1979) The Associate (1979) Every Man for Himself (1980) The Return of Martin Guerre (1982) Passion (1982) The General of the Dead Army (1983) Danton (1983) Swann in Love (1984) Exploits of a Young Don Juan (1986) The Last Image (1986) Max, Mon Amour (1986) The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) The Possessed (1988) The Bengali Night (1988) Valmont (1989) Hard to Be a God (1989) The Mahabharata (1989) May Fools (1990) Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991) The Return of Casanova (1992) The Night and the Moment (1995) The Horseman on the Roof (1995) The Ogre (1996) Chinese Box (1997) War in the Highlands (1998) Birth (2004) Goya's Ghosts (2006) Ulzhan (2007) The Artist and the Model (2012) The Patience Stone (2012) In the Shadow of Women (2015) Lover for a Day (2017) A Faithful Man (2018) At Eternity's Gate (2018) The Salt of Tears (2020) The Crusade (2021) Land of Dreams (2021) The Plough (2023)
Stage works	The Mahabharata (1985) Clara (1998) Wagner Dream (2007)
TV series written	The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1964)
Books written	The Power of Buddhism (1999)

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