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Killing Zoe (1993)

Crime | 96 minutes
2,90 699 votes

Genre: Crime / Thriller

Duration: 96 minuten

Country: United States / France

Directed by: Roger Avary

Stars: Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy and Jean-Hugues Anglade

IMDb score: 6,4 (21.703)

Releasedate: 1 October 1993

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Killing Zoe plot

"We go in. We get what we want. We come out."

Zed (Stoltz) arrives from America in Paris, the city where he once lived. The taxi driver arranges a call girl for him, and moments later the beautiful Zoe (Delpy) comes to his hotel. Their bed is still warm when his excited childhood friend Eric (Anglade) bursts in and kicks Zoe head over heels out of the room. Eric takes Zed into the nightlife, introduces him to some criminal friends, and then reveals his goal: Zed's knowledge of safes is wanted in a bank robbery the next day. In the end, Zed agrees, but a surprise awaits them in the bank...

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blurp194

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Saw this film in the cinema at the time, and then deeply impressed. That was a long time before anyone even heard of Tarantino - Reservoir Dogs was released earlier, but it didn't become widely known, and the association of this film with Tarantino, as far as I remember, only came with the DVD version - on the box of the vhs tape I had at the time had Tarantino's name not to be seen - and whether that ultimately did this movie any good I doubt, and that it's something other than a marketing ploy.

Then this movie. Nice and smooth from the start, with a lot of rather subtle humor - the wonderfully French unhelpful way Zed is treated at the hotel, for example, or the way each translation makes Zoe's rate higher. But also Nosferatu, the beautifully blunt way in which Eric makes his entrance, and the way in which the preparation for the heist is worked out in detail in a professional manner throughout the night - or something like that. In terms of timing all pretty good, in terms of cinematography quite a few good and then quite new tricks, a good soundtrack to match, and good roles especially from Stolz, Anglade and Delpy - perhaps their best roles in all three.

Not so bad, so, as far as I'm concerned - the few small mistakes, such as the exaggerated shooting at the end are in themselves forgivable - just like that Avary might just enjoy the story a bit - that makes up for something because at the time such a bluntly violent film was still somewhat new, and it had an above-average amount of content and story to offer. Well, I may still be a bit biased about it, there is a bit of youth sentiment in it somewhere - and at the time I had also made quite a bit of effort to find that vhs band. Ordered from a specialty store in town, if I remember correctly.

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K. V.

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The cover has always stayed with me and I finally got around to it. I didn't really know what to expect, but it was still a good movie. I was a bit surprised that the film was largely in French, but it was not disturbing.

The cast did a great job and the movie looked great.

Maybe not a well-known film, but I thought this was unfair, I certainly didn't complain.

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yeyo

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Apparently Roger Avary wanted to film a scene of Killing Zoe in a Parisian McDonalds, but he didn't get the permission. I find this trivial anecdote very exemplary of the what ... er.. unusual poetry of this work. Where Tarantino always has more high-quality ambitions, Avary is his affected, over-enthusiastic, purulent nephew. I have no objection on principle to the people who call Killing Zoe a flop: it is at times embarrassing how the film tries to be 'edgy' with nihilistic ultraviolence and many 'nice finds' come across as rather forced. But somehow I do have admiration for Avary who, despite this somewhat adolescent affectation, never really falters in mere stylistism and maintains a kind of strange involvement with his characters. The excessive attention given to the 'development' of the character of Stoltz (Avary's own 'evil twin', as he calls him), gives me the impression that somewhere under the thick layer of Generation X cynicism he has a somewhat more existentialist story. hides the inherent humiliation of growing up. The gulf that seems to have arisen between 'childhood friends' Eric and Zed is not merely a plot element, but indicates a real and human disappointment. The somewhat picaresque story also resembles a kind of indie / mumblecore film where an insecure main character ruins a banal trip: bland hotel room, followed by useless sexual intercourse, followed by a disappointing revel and a hangover that makes that when it's time to real Paris', you really just want to pack your bags to go home again

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