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Life Kills Me (2002)
Directed by Jean-Pierre Sinapi
“Two brother, two dreams.”
Drama · 1h 26m
Paul is a smart, university educated Frenchman of North African ancestry. He's a smooth talker, but he can't seem to get a job worthy of his skills. He ends up living in a single room, struggling to get by while going on many fruitless job interviews, during which he tries to impress his potential employers by turning his pizza delivery job into a tall tale about revamping the whole pizza chain. But at some point, they always seem to "see through him." He retreats into the boxing ring. His secretly gay brother Daniel also has trouble finding his place in the world. He spends all his time bodybuilding and takes dangerous drugs to enhance his physique. He dreams of being the next Schwarzenegger, but is forced to settle for a demeaning job as a "star" in a Hamburg sex club. Based on Jack-Alain Léger's novel
Cast
Sami Bouajila
Paul Smaïl
Jalil Lespert
Daniel Smaïl
Sylvie Testud
Myriam
Roger Ibáñez
M. Louis
Mohamed Ourdache
Marc Andréoni
Monsieur Benny
M'hamed Benguettaf
Le père Smaïl
Philippe Duclos
Mr. Suard
Tassadit Mandi
La mère Smaïl
Crew
- Director
- Jean-Pierre Sinapi
- Screenplay
- Daniel Tonachella, Jean-Pierre Sinapi
- Novel
- Jack-Alain Léger
- Director of Photography
- Pierre Aïm, Jean-Paul Meurisse
- Original Music Composer
- Louis Sclavis
- Editor
- Catherine Schwartz
- Producer
- Michael André, Fabienne Servan Schreiber
Details
- Original title
- Vivre me tue
- Release date
- 2002-05-26
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- German, French
- Countries
- France, Germany
- Production
- Fabienne Servan Scheiber Productions, Canal+, CNC, FilmFörderung Hamburg