Louise Hires a Contract Killer

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Movie
German title Louise Hires a Contract Killer
Original title Louise-Michel
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2008
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Benoît Delépine ,
Gustave Kervern
script Benoît Delépine,
Gustave Kervern
production Mathieu Kassovitz
music Gaëtan Roussel
camera Hugues Poulain
cut Stéphanie Elmadjian
occupation

Louise Hires a Contract Killer (Original title: Louise-Michel ) is a French comedy film from 2008 by Gustave Kervern and Benoît Delépine with Yolande Moreau in the title role.

action

A textile factory in Picardy is surprisingly shut down by the company management for the workers. When they come to work in the morning, the machines are dismantled, the bosses are over and over again. The workers decide to pool the money from their ridiculous severance payment and use it to hire a hit man to kill the former boss. Louise promises to contact a professional killer and runs into the guard at a caravan campsite, Michel, who is just a gun fanatic. From this constellation a deadly road movie develops across Europe, in the course of which the atrocities of the capitalist boss are avenged in a macabre way.

Reviews

“'Louise Hires a Contract Killer' is a bitterly angry comedy by the French satirists Gustave Kervern and Benoit Delépine. The film's humor is bone-dry and tailored to the brittle lead actress Yolande Moreau. Anyone who likes macabre jokes beyond good taste and political correctness is in good hands here. Conclusion: Mercilessly malicious underdog grotesque, which combines the dry silent film humor of Buster Keaton with the style of the Coen Brothers . "

- cinema.de

“'Louise Michel' is a wonderfully black-humored, bitterly angry, politically incorrect comedy with a high laugh guarantee, which is definitely not suitable for every viewer. [...] But those who have already enjoyed themselves with 'Aaltra' or are not averse to a dark humor, will definitely get their money's worth with this anarcho-comedy - and that even after the end credits, which you will definitely want to see until the bitter end should see. "

- filmstarts.de

“Louise Hires a Contract Killer shines with a relational humor - Lumière, Kubrick or Kaurismäki again - although the open (self-) referentiality sometimes comes across as a bit wooden. With a few gags and quotes, the film seems to be operating border violation only for an end in itself, because not all cross-references are as ambiguous as the scene in which producer Mathieu Kassovitz makes a guest appearance as an understanding organic farm and country hotel owner and thus satirizes his own image. And it is precisely these moments that are particularly fun. "

- critic.de

“Bizarre mixture of dreary social drama and anarcho-comedy, which freezes in boredom due to dramaturgical and technical inadequacies. Only the actors, with their convincing tendency towards fatalism, ensure lasting amusing moments. "

- Lexicon of international film

“Very, very bad, black comedy, radical, uncompromising, anarchic to the last. Stay seated after the credits! "

- cinefacts.de

title

The original title is reminiscent of the 19th century French revolutionary and social reformer Louise Michel , to whom the film is dedicated. The German title is based on the film " I hired a Contract Killer " by the Finn Aki Kaurismäki . With the not always politically correct, sometimes marginal, blatant and black humor in this film, that's entirely appropriate. The scenes in the Familistère in Guise , a building complex built by the factory owner and utopian socialist Jean-Baptiste André Godin in the mid-19th century, also refer to the social reform background (in the film, the apartment of Miro's parents).

Awards

Special Jury Prize at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Approval for Louise Hires a Contract Killer . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2009 (PDF; test number: 118 940 K).
  2. ^ Louise Hires a Contract Killer on cinema.de
  3. ↑ Louise Hires a Contract Killer Björn Becher on filmstarts.de
  4. ^ Louise Hires a Contract Killer Andreas B. Krüger on critic.de
  5. ^ Louise Hires a Contract Killer. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ a b c Louise hires a Contract Killer on cinefacts.de ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ Nominations and Awards in the Internet Movie Database

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