Killing Zoe

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Movie
German title Killing Zoe
Original title Killing Zoe
Country of production France
original language English , French
Publishing year 1993
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Roger Avary
script Roger Avary
production Samuel Hadida
music Tomandandy
camera Tom Richmond
cut Kathryn Himoff
occupation

Killing Zoe is the first directorial work by American director Roger Avary , produced by Samuel Hadida and Quentin Tarantino .

action

Zed, an American safe specialist, visits his childhood friend Eric in Paris, not to go on vacation, but as a helper in an upcoming bank robbery on the national holiday . Through the mediation of a Parisian taxi driver, Zed has a prostitute come to his room after arriving at his accommodation. The young Zoe is pretty and intelligent, and so a very entertaining romance develops between the two, which is suddenly destroyed by the visit of Eric.

Eric throws the beautiful Zoe out of the hotel room and introduces Zed to his Parisian friends and the participants in the planned bank robbery. In Eric's apartment, his friends use drugs of all kinds. Zed doesn't really want to take anything, but peer pressure seduces him. It quickly becomes clear that the gang compensates for poor preparation with an enormous potential for violence and excessive drug use. Instead of planning the robbery, you have fun with hashish , heroin , ecstasy and red wine during the night . In Eric's opinion, "it does more". During the nighttime drug excesses, Eric confesses to Zed that he had AIDS, which he caught from the needle while consuming heroin. Since Zed has no experience with drugs, he cannot correctly assess the situation when he is intoxicated. Eric forces Zed to take an ecstasy pill. Subsequently, Zed is unsure if he's been watching homosexual sex with Eric and a member of the gang. Now Zed falls asleep.

The next morning, Zed wakes up in a van in front of the bank. After a cigarette for breakfast, he gives in to the robbery, completely over-night. After storming the French National Bank, none of the gang knows whether an employee has triggered the alarm in the meantime. Eric forces the bank manager to open the safe. When that doesn't work, he shoots a clerk and the manager himself. Due to the stress in the bank, Eric tries to squeeze some heroin in the toilet. Now the whole plan is getting out of hand. Eric shoots people at random to show he's not a complete beginner. To make matters worse, he lights a load of dynamite to overpower a security guard in another vault.

Surprisingly, among the hostages the gang has captured in the bank is beautiful Zoe, who works in that bank during the day. The situation in the bank continues to worsen, and when Eric begins to go nuts, Zed has to decide which side he is on. The police storm the bank and shoot all members of the gang. A fight ensues between Zed and Eric near the vault. The police arrive and shoot Eric with several submachine guns. Zoe helps Zed escape by claiming that he is a customer of the bank.

production

After the success of Reservoir Dogs in 1992, Lawrence Bender and Quentin Tarantino had the funds to produce Roger Avary's directorial debut.

The film received an FSK-18 rating through the voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , but in the cinema it was shortened by three minutes and ran with the FSK-16 rating. This FSK-16 cut version was later released on video (September 13, 1996) and DVD (February 15, 2001). Only the renewed submission of the FSK-18 version existing in France made it possible to publish a DVD with the FSK-18 cut version in Germany in 2001.

Reviews

As the published in the same year Thriller Natural Born Killers by Oliver Stone polarized film critics, especially and above all by the explicit depiction of violence. Again and again it was criticized that the explicit representation of violence in Killing Zoe went far beyond the limits of what can be shown on film. In the TV feature film , the film was described as "tough", in the lexicon of international film as a "masterful mixture of gangster film and comedic farce", which was "both tragic and always up to the topic in the numerous scenes of violence".

Awards

Won: the Mystfest award for

  • 1994: best film
  • 1994: Critics Award

Nominated: at the Portuguese Fantasporto -Fest for

  • 1995: International Fantasy Film Award

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Killing Zoe - film review. In: TV feature film online. Retrieved on September 17, 2019 (German).
  2. ^ Killing Zoe in the Lexicon of International Films Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used