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A Violent Life

Original title: Une vie violente
  • 20172017
  • 1h 47m
IMDb RATING
6.0/10
406
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POPULARITY
122,354
6,343
A Violent Life (2017)
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Despite the death threat hanging on his head, Stéphane decides to return to Corsica to attend the funeral of his best friend and comrade in arms, Christophe, murdered the day before.Despite the death threat hanging on his head, Stéphane decides to return to Corsica to attend the funeral of his best friend and comrade in arms, Christophe, murdered the day before.Despite the death threat hanging on his head, Stéphane decides to return to Corsica to attend the funeral of his best friend and comrade in arms, Christophe, murdered the day before.
IMDb RATING
6.0/10
406
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
122,354
6,343
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    • Director
      • Thierry de Peretti
    • Writers
      • Thierry de Peretti
      • Guillaume Bréaud
    • Stars
      • Jean Michelangeli
      • Henri-Noël Tabary
      • Cédric Appietto
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Thierry de Peretti
    • Writers
      • Thierry de Peretti
      • Guillaume Bréaud
    • Stars
      • Jean Michelangeli
      • Henri-Noël Tabary
      • Cédric Appietto
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 4User reviews
    • 17Critic reviews
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 1 nomination

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    Trailer 1:44
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    Sigrid Bouaziz and Jean Michelangeli in A Violent Life (2017)
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    Top cast

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    Jean Michelangeli
    • Stéphane
    Henri-Noël Tabary
    • Christophe
    Cédric Appietto
    • Michel
    Marie-Pierre Nouveau
    • Jeanne
    Délia Sepulcre-Nativi
    • Raphaëlle
    Dominique Colombani
    • François
    Paul Garatte
    • Marc-Antoine
    Jean-Étienne Brat
    • Micka
    Anaïs Lechiara
    • Vanessa
    Paul Rognoni
    • Maître Patrice Giudicelli
    Gérard Mazzoni
    • Gérard
    Cédric Allessandri
    • Cédric
    Théo Frimigacci
    • Théo
    Stéphane Leca
    • Stéphane
    Petru Bracci
    • Petru
    José Muselli
    • José
    François-Joseph Cullioli
    • Jeune militant
    Anto Mela
    Anto Mela
    • Jeune militant
    • Director
      • Thierry de Peretti
    • Writers
      • Thierry de Peretti
      • Guillaume Bréaud
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    • Trivia
      Freely inspired by the story of the director Thierry de Peretti's childhood acquaintance Nicolas Montigny, a young nationalist killed in 2001 at 28 by eleven bullets in a Bastia cybercafé, after having been close to the underground Corsican group "Armata Corsa".

    User reviews4

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    Top review
    3/10
    First review
    This movie made me write my first review and for all the wrong reasons. The story telling is lacking weight, I did not feel emotionally engaged with the main character for several reasons: the dialogs were just people fighting and and spewing political mambo jambo, the one dimensional characters only emotion was anger, there were too many secondary characters which were just interchangeable and there was no attempt of creating a connection with the main character to care for any of them. I did not care for the story of Stephan because the director did not make me care for this character, I was just hoping that he would get killed so the movie would be over. The timeline was also confusing as there were no establishing shots to know where we were, suddenly we are in prison and the next shot we are in a bar without knowing why. I think this was a very interesting story that just missed all the marks in storytelling.
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    5
    • alexsancruiz
    • Mar 18, 2018

    Details

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    • Release date
      • August 9, 2017 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Official sites
      • Les Films Velvet (France)
      • Pyramide Distribution (France)
    • Languages
      • French
      • Corsican
    • Also known as
      • Жестокая Жизнь
    • Filming locations
      • Bastia, Haute-Corse, France
    • Production companies
      • Les Films Velvet
      • Arte France Cinéma
      • Stanley White
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • €3,450,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $652,303
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 47 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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