"As Fernando Martín Peña points out, As Long As You’re Healthy was in many ways Étaix’s closest film to the spirit of silent comedies. Or maybe to the style of fellow countryman and master Jacques Tati’s resuscitated and sonorized silent comedies. Like Mon Oncle, Tati’s second film, where Étaix worked as an assistant director, the film skeptically shows the progress of technology and consumer society. There is no actual plot, but a series of episodes a man goes through in his effort to live a more quiet life. In his desperately funny search of a lifestyle more and more distant, and just like Tati’s Hulot, the anonymous protagonist (played by Étaix) goes the wrong way up the path he depicts, which is as vital as nostalgically stubborn."
Quoting the description from the 2010 Mar del Plata Film Festival site.