Requiem for a killer: review

Harmless assassin tale is ripe for a new, and perhaps a remake.

Jerome Le Gris

Melanie Laurent, Clovis Cornillac, Tchéky KARYO, Xavier Gallais

PARIS - Godard once said, all you need for a film "A girl and a gun." You'd think this would apply to a movie that actually has a hit girl, but the makers of Requiem for a killer (Requiem pour une Tueuse) somehow decided to leave the "gun" part. The result is a botched with virtually no blow.

Co-producer StudioCanal will let you in France and international sales, which should handle on francophone slots and local DVD storage bins. Otherwise in view of the Hollywood has recently crashed on French films to remake how tourism and the next three days appear to be, it can be a US version (and one can only hope a better treated one) coming finally to a theater in your area.

After a steady line of female assassin flicks of la Femme Nikita to out to almost everything that has author and Director Jerome Le Gris recently with Angelina Jolie, freshman gathering all the items in the hand, an attractive mix of high heels and high tension. But it is clear from the opening scene, in the Femme, the fatal Lucrèce (Mélanie Laurent) decides on their victims by the gift of him from a poisoned wafer during a church chaos, that this is not your typical shoot ' em-Up.

In fact is the Lucrèce m.o., their objectives to an array of deadly Mickey, glide takes you along on your next mission, during an international musical festival in a Swiss Chateau set. Posing as an opera singer - has real pipes - Lucrèce tries, has take down Alexander child (Christopher Stills), baritone, a piece of land, which is strongly desired by a British oil company. When Alexander's glass wine is spiking a delicate matter (and ridiculous, but it is unclear whether this was intentional), are questions more difficult as a classical guitarist further by a secret agent (Clovis Cornillac).

Le Gris studied clearly his Hitchcock. References here are notorious (the scene, wine cellar) and the man who knew too much (the Albert Hall concert scene), not to mention of his star's Platinum blond hair. What he forgot to study, was the content of those movies as Requiem for a killer is missing any kind of subtext. It is so muddled that Lucrèce's boss (Tchéky KARYO) according to, ask yourself, "What the hell we still here do?" It is a question that appears that prompts the film itself.

Laurent is a strange mixture of their roles in the concert and Inglourious Basterds especially seen, either sings Handel or to try, to kill someone. Your character has to speak virtually no depth.

For what shall a high class suspense film, the widescreen lensing by Antoine Monod (the last flight) is sloppy in parts, and certain sequences such as low-grade HD listed more than 35 mm in the ending credits.

Opened: in France on 23 Feb
Production companies: Old movies, StudioCanal, France 2 cinema, cinema Rhône Alpes
Cast: Mélanie Laurent, Clovis Cornillac, Tchéky KARYO, Xavier Gallais, Christopher stills, Corrado Invernizzi
Director screenwriter: Jérôme Le Gris
Producer: Alain Terzian
Executive Producer: Thierry Muscat
Director of photography: Antoine MONOD
Production designer: Maamar ech Cheikh
Music: Jiri Heger, Anne-Sophie Versnaeyen, Regis Vogelene
Costume designer: Catherine Rigault
Editor: Claire Fieschi
Sales agent: StudioCanal
No rating, 91 minutes

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