The killer and the girl
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The killer and the girl |
| Original title | Cible émouvante |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pierre Salvadori |
| script | Pierre Salvadori |
| production | Philippe Martin |
| music | Philippe Eidel |
| camera | Gilles Henry |
| cut | Hélène Viard |
| occupation | |
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The killer and the girl (original title: Cible émouvante ) is a crime comedy from 1993 by Pierre Salvadori , who also wrote the screenplay. The film premiered in France on August 18, 1993. In Germany it was first broadcast in 1997 on the private broadcaster tm3 . A remake under the title Wild Target by director Jonathan Lynn premiered in 2010.
action
The professional killer Victor Meynard, who is considered the best of his craft due to his pedantic conscientiousness, is surprised by the messenger Antoine while carrying out an assignment. However, he does not kill the clumsy young man, but trains him to be his successor. His next job is to murder the con artist Renée, because she has stolen a large amount of money from a gang boss with a forged painting. But instead of killing her, he falls in love with his victim and even protects her; much to the chagrin of his mother, who sees the family honor in danger and also tries once in between to kill the girl.
So it happens that not only Renée but also Victor is hunted. Together they seek shelter in the estate of Victor's family, but when Renée realizes that she is in the house of a professional killer, she escapes and ends up in the hands of the killer Dremyan and his assistant, who are set on her and Victor. As a hostage, she leads the two of them back to the property, where a chain of various circumstances means that Victor's mother's assistant and Dremyan are killed by a defective pistol.
In the closing credits, which played a few years later, Renée and Victor watch their daughter as she shovels a hole when Antoine joins the house as a servant and asks about the cat's whereabouts.
Reviews
The film-dienst describes the film as a “black comedy in a classic style, superbly played and solidly staged, the script of which comes up with lots of funny dialogues”. For prisma-online, Der Killer und das Mädchen is "a successful gangster comedy with good actors, funny dialogues and convincing timing".
Awards
The film received two nominations for the César in 1994 : Guillaume Depardieu for best young actor and Pierre Salvadori for best debut .
Web links
- The killer and the girl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The killer and the girl in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Killer and the Girl premiere dates on imdb.com , accessed February 28, 2008
- ↑ a b The Killer and the Girl in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on February 28, 2008
- ↑ Wild Target - Its sharpest target. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
- ↑ prisma.de: The killer and the girl
- ↑ Awards for The Killer and the Girl on imdb.com , accessed February 28, 2008