Kill Me Later (2001)
A suicidal bank teller (Selma Blair) is taken hostage by a desperate bank robber (some no-name), and she agrees to help him escape on the condition that he'll kill her afterwards. It's constructed as a homage to the French New Wave, and in that respect it's fairly interesting. The jump-cut technique in particular has been used to completely obliterate the meaning of time within the narrative -- conversations take place across different time spans and different locations. But where the majority of the New Wave films were shot through with a vitality and urgency, this seems to have been infected with it's female lead's worldview -- it's curiously dour and enervated. It's enjoyably stylish and not unlikeable, but I can't wholeheartedly recommend it.
Grade: C+
A suicidal bank teller (Selma Blair) is taken hostage by a desperate bank robber (some no-name), and she agrees to help him escape on the condition that he'll kill her afterwards. It's constructed as a homage to the French New Wave, and in that respect it's fairly interesting. The jump-cut technique in particular has been used to completely obliterate the meaning of time within the narrative -- conversations take place across different time spans and different locations. But where the majority of the New Wave films were shot through with a vitality and urgency, this seems to have been infected with it's female lead's worldview -- it's curiously dour and enervated. It's enjoyably stylish and not unlikeable, but I can't wholeheartedly recommend it.
Grade: C+
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