I Hired a Contract Killer
I Hired a Contract Killer is a film directed, produced and written by the Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki in 1990. It is a Finnish-British-German-Swedish co-production and stars the renowned French actor Jean-Pierre Léaud. The film also features cameo appearances by Joe Strummer as a guitar player and by Kaurismäki as a sunglasses salesman. The film's plot device of a man arranging for an assassin to kill him but later attempting to call off the deal is also used in the more famous 1998 American film Bulworth, starring Warren Beatty.
Plot
Henri Boulanger is a middle-aged French man leading a drab and solitary life in London. One day, he is notified that despite fifteen years of service, he has been laid off, effective immediately, from his office job at the London waterworks because the government wants to privatize the business and foreigners have to be fired first.
More details
| author | Aki Kaurismäki Peter von Bagh |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | London |
| director | Aki Kaurismäki |
| editor | Aki Kaurismäki |
| genre | comedy-drama |
| keywords | belong break in burn chance encounter contract killer hang hear jump kill lay off meet office job shock than the think tick wait |
| musicBy | Billie Holiday |
| producer | Aki Kaurismäki |
| productionCompany | Svenska Filminstitutet Villealfa Filmproductions |
| publisher | Finnkino |