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Requiem for a Killer

Original title: Requiem pour une tueuse
  • 20112011
  • 1h 31m
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5.0/10
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Requiem for a Killer (2011)
Thriller
Lucrèce, the best killer in the business, accepts a final job: eliminate an opera singer who threatens the interests of a corporation. She's hired as a contralto for a festival her target is... Read allLucrèce, the best killer in the business, accepts a final job: eliminate an opera singer who threatens the interests of a corporation. She's hired as a contralto for a festival her target is singing in, but things don't happen as planned.Lucrèce, the best killer in the business, accepts a final job: eliminate an opera singer who threatens the interests of a corporation. She's hired as a contralto for a festival her target is singing in, but things don't happen as planned.
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    • Jérôme Le Gris
    • Jérôme Le Gris
  • Stars
    • Mélanie Laurent
    • Clovis Cornillac
    • Tchéky Karyo
    • Jérôme Le Gris
    • Jérôme Le Gris
  • Stars
    • Mélanie Laurent
    • Clovis Cornillac
    • Tchéky Karyo
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    • 9User reviews
    • 23Critic reviews
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    Conrad Cecil in REQUIEM FOR A KILLER
    Conrad Cecil & Johann Leysen in REQUIEM FOR A KILLER
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    Mélanie Laurent
    Mélanie Laurent
    • Lucrèce
    Clovis Cornillac
    Clovis Cornillac
    • Rico
    Tchéky Karyo
    Tchéky Karyo
    • l'Arménien
    Xavier Gallais
    • Xavier de Ferrières
    Christopher Stills
    • Alexander Child
    Corrado Invernizzi
    Corrado Invernizzi
    • Vittorio Biamonte
    Michel Fau
    Michel Fau
    • Le chef d'orchestre
    Frédérique Tirmont
    • La colonel
    Johan Leysen
    Johan Leysen
    • Van Kummant
    Julie Fuchs
    • Olga Babayova
    Geoffrey Bateman
    Geoffrey Bateman
    • Le PDG British Oil
    Philippe Morier-Genoud
    • Le prêtre
    Jean-Claude Dreyfus
    Jean-Claude Dreyfus
    • Le maitre de chant
    Julien Israël
    • Seymour
    Bruno Flender
    • Ottmar
    Michel Bouis
    Michel Bouis
    • Le remplaçant d'Ottmar
    Conrad Cecil
    Conrad Cecil
    • L'ingénieur British Oil
    Clara Ruscon
    • La fille de Lucrèce
      • Jérôme Le Gris
      • Jérôme Le Gris
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    • Trivia
      With this film, Jérôme Le Gris aimed to make a modern Alfred Hitchcock-style thriller. In particular the character of Lucrèce is supposed to be a take on the "Hitchcock Blonde" and the music aims to be similar to that of Bernard Herrmann.
    • Goofs
      When in her bedroom, Lucrèce is heard tapping numerous keys on her macbook laptop, followed by the idiosyncratic noise of the macbook starting up. This noise is only produced when a macbook is powering up, which requires pushing only the 'on' button, which doesn't make a sound.
    • Soundtracks
      Le Messie
      (extraits de l'Opratorio de Heandel)

      Music by George Frideric Handel (as Haendel)

      Orchestra performed by Les Siècles

      Conducted by François-Xavier Roth

      Contralto : Delphine Galou

      Soprano : Julie Fuchs

      Ténor : Corrado Invernizzi

      Basse : Florian Westphal

      Chorus : Pygmalion

      Chorus Master : Raphaël Pichon

      enregistré au Studio DAVOUT et mixé au Studio EGERE par Jiri Heger

      (p) 2010 ALTER FILM/STUDIOCANAL

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    8/10
    Hilariously subversive thriller
    The deadliest hit-man in Europe is actually a woman and sings contralto. The toughest secret agent detailed to stop her is a guitar virtuoso. If you can swallow that and watch the rest of it as a straight thriller, you have a mental age of four. Tops.

    In fact, this is a hilarious send-up of three different genres all at once: Hitchcockian cat-and-mouse thriller, Agatha Christie whodunnit and Italian giallo. Perhaps the director (quite rightly) doubted that the producers would allow him to make three different films in this vein, so he lumped all three together. Which I suppose makes the whole even funnier.

    The script goes out of its way to invent the most bizarre situations and then sabotage them in the most outlandish ways possible. Witness the outrageous murder method employed in the opening sequence, or the episode where the killer uses poison to fulfill her contract, only to realise she is a breath away from having a mass murder on her CV. All characters behave like children in a playground sand pit, set to gorgeous strands of Handel's Messiah. And the film looks ravishing, too, in the best 70s fashion, both outdoors and in.

    Bound to be a flop at the box-office (way, way too tongue-in-cheek for the popcorn-munching crowd), but should become a cult classic if there's any justice in this world.
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    • Mar 2, 2011

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      • February 23, 2011 (France)
      • France
      • French
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Château de Mortfontaine, Mortfontaine, Oise, France
    • Production companies
      • Alter Films
      • StudioCanal
      • France 2 Cinéma
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    • 1 hour 31 minutes
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      • Dolby Digital

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