I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)
Contraté a un asesino a sueldo
J'ai engagé un tueur
Dirección: Aki Kaurismäki.
Argumento: Peter von Bagh (idea) / Aki Kaurismäki (historia).
Guión: Aki Kaurismäki.
Fotografía: Timo Salminen (Metrocolor).
Música (temas): Billie Holiday ("Time On My Hands"), Joe Strummer ("Body And Soul"), Little Willie John ("I'm Sticking With You Baby"), Roy Brown ("Troubla at Midnight"), Olavi Virta ("Ennen Kuolemaa"), Carlos Gardel ("Mi Buenos Aires Querido", "Cuesta abajo").
Producción: Aki Kaurismäki, Martin Bruce-Clayton, David Kelly
Productora: Esselte Video / Finnkino / Megamania / Pandora Filmproduktion / Pyramide Films / Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI) / Villealfa Filmproduction Oy.
(Finlandia-Suecia-Francia-Gran Bretaña-RFA, ) [Color, 79 m.].
Género: Comedia dramática, Comedia negra, Thriller
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099818/
Reparto:
Jean-Pierre Léaud (Henri Boulanger), Margi Clarke (Margaret), Kenneth Colley (l'assassin), T.R. Bowen (le chef de département (sous le nom Trevor Bowen)), Imogen Claire (la secrétaire (sous le nom Immogen Clare)), Angela Walsh (la propriétaire), Cyril Epstein (un chauffeur de taxi), Nicky Tesco (Pete), Charles Cork (Al), Michael O'Hagan (le patron du tueur), Tex Axile (le patron du bar), Walter Sparrow (un porteur de l'hôtel), Tony Rohr (Frank), Joe Strummer (le chanteur et guitariste), Peter Graves (le bijoutier), Serge Reggiani (Vic), Ette Elliot (la fille du tueur), Roberto Pla (le joueur de bongo), Aki Kaurismaki (l'homme qui vend des lunettes de soleil, non crédité).
Sinopsis: Un hombre gris y sin ganas de vivir contrata a un asesino a sueldo para que acabe con su vida, pues él carece de valor para hacerlo. Pero, inesperadamente, conoce a una mujer y cambia de idea: quiere seguir viviendo. El problema consiste en que debe encontrar al asesino que ha contratado antes de que éste ejecute su macabro encargo. (FILMAFFINTITY)
Licencié et désespéré, Henri Boulanger, petit fonctionnaire, veut se suicider. Incapable d'y arriver par lui-même, il engage un tueur. Alors qu'il boit ce qu'il croit être son dernier verre, il fait la connaissance d'une charmante fleuriste, Margaret, qui lui redonne goût à la vie. Mais le tueur est déjà en route. (Cinémotions)
Críticas:IMDb. After fifteen years' service, Henri Boulanger is made redundant from his job. Shocked, he attempts suicide, but can't go through with it, so he hires a contract killer in a seedy bar to murder him at some unspecified time in the future. But almost immediately he meets and falls in love with Margaret, a flower-seller, which makes Henri realise that his life has some meaning after all. But when he goes back to the bar to cancel the contract, he finds it has been demolished - and there's no way he can get in touch with the killer...
AMG SYNOPSIS: In this Finnish comedy, which features all-English dialogue and nary a Scandanavian in it, Henri Boulanger (Jean-Pierre Leaud), is a colorless English civil servant, who was given a speedy retirement when his agency was "privatized," complete with a gold watch. His life is so barren that removing even the empty activities of his job makes it not worth living, so he attempts suicide by sticking his head in a gas oven - just as a gas service strike gets underway. Frustrated, he takes his savings from the bank and heads off to hire a contract killer to take his life from him. Then he really begins to enjoy life - so much so, that now he wants to avoid his imminent demise. -- Clarke Fountain
- "Me maté porque era mío", por Sergio Vargas. Miradas de Cine, nº 59 (feb 2007).
- Contraté un asesino a sueldo. Ganarse un acre.
- Aki Kaurismäki - I Hired a Contract Killer (1990), por Maracho. Filmoteca Ámbar.
- "Realismo poético y alguna que otra copa. Apuntes sobre A.K.", por Adrian Martin. Miradas de Cine, nº 59 (febrero 2007).
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