コントラクト・キラー
I Hired a Contract Killer
フィンランドのアキ・カウリスマキ監督によるサスペンスコメディ。ロンドンの水道局で働くフランス人レオ。突然解雇された彼は自殺を図ろうとするが死にきれず、新聞広告で知った殺し屋コントラクト・キラーに自分の殺害を依頼する。しかしその夜、彼はカフェで出会った花売り娘マーガレットに恋をしてしまい……。主演はフランスの名優ジャン＝ピエール・レオ。元ザ・クラッシュのジョー・ストラマーによるバーでの演奏シーンも必見。
A black comedy directed by A. Kaurismäki and starring J.-P. Léaud. An unemployed man, pessimistic about life, decides to commit suicide and hires a professional hitman to kill him, but... This is a superb masterpiece full of unexpected developments and black humor. The lead role was given to the renowned French actor J.-P. Léaud. His deadpan expression, not changing in the slightest even in the midst of crisis, invites incomparable laughter. The veteran actor S. Reggiani also co-stars. London. Henri, a Frenchman who has worked for years at the waterworks, with neither family nor lover, is suddenly fired from his workplace and impulsively attempts suicide, but fails. Deciding to try again, he hires a professional hitman—the 'Contract Killer'—found in a newspaper to kill him. However, Henri falls in love at first sight with Margaret, a beautiful young woman who makes a living selling flowers in town. He therefore changes his mind and cancels the request with the hitman, but it is already too late, and he flees from the hitman together with Margaret, but...
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