After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life. Lacking courage, he hires a contract killer to do the job. Then, while awaiting his demise, he meets a woman and promptly falls in love.
Acting
Léaud's magnificent hangdog despair
Direction
Kaurismäki's patented emotional constipation
Writing
Dialogue so dry it needs a drink
Director
Aki Kaurismäki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Truffaut's iconic Antoine Doinel, plays against his entire youthful persona as defeated middle-aged Henri.
Kaurismäki made this in London with French and English actors—pure Finnish sensibility achieved through sheer stubbornness.
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