You Kill Me (2007)

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Directed by John Dahl.

Starring Dennis Farina, Philip Baker Hall, Ben Kingsley, Téa Leoni, Luke Wilson.

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In this smart, darkly funny drama by John Dahl (The Last Seduction) about addiction and recovery, Ben Kingsley delivers a bravura performance as Frank, an alcoholic contract killer forced to go through a twelve-step program and become a funeral home assistant. Also starring Tea Leoni and Luke Wilson. An IFC Films Release. ~tribecafilmfestival.org

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Review of You Kill Me at PopMat ...
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"I have a review of the DVD for You Kill Me up at PopMatters. Read my "One thing" post about the seeing this film in theater here. Originally posted on:ShaunHuston's blog " [More]

You Kill Me - Brooklyn Rules
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"By Tricia Olszewski Forget everything that Cops has taught you—according to John Dahl’s You Kill Me, drinking and homicide actually don’t mix. At least not when you’re Frank Falenczyk, an alcoholic hit man who once prided himself on his murderly precision. When his Buffalo-based gangster family forces him to go to San Francisco and dry up, Frank resists, but he eventually takes the 12 steps to heart. Particularly the one about making amends: “I don’t regret killing them,” Frank tells his girlfriend of the victims he’s listing on paper. “Just killing them badly.” And so, the next of kin of the woman whose eye he sliced instead of her throat gets a $50 gift certificate to Macy’s. The monster-with-a-sensitive-side premise has been done before, mined for laughs (Analyze This and That) or melodrama (The Sopranos). Here, the premise is spun as nearly intolerably cute. Ben Kingsley’s Frank isn’t a sexy beast&m ... " [More]

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"One thing that makes You Kill Me one of the best movies I've seen so far this year is Jeff Jur's photography.You Kill Me is shot in cool tones (notice how strong the blues are in dusky interiors). In bright light, the image flirts with overexposure. The first choice underscores the cool, hardbitten nature of the film's characters, most of whom have spent their lives in literal and metaphorical shadows, away from others, a quality connoted by the near washing out of the image when they are drawn into the light.Jur also makes selected use of rack focus to bring the audience into Frank's (Ben Kingsley) point of view. There are three shots in particular where this device is put to use: one where Frank catches his reflection in a window while talking to his soon-to-be AA sponsor, Tom (Luke Wilson), one where Frank looks up at the top of the Golden Gate Bridge while talking to Tom about “accepting a higher power,” and one where he fixes on one of his fellow alcoholics, Becky (Katie Messi ... " [More]

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"You Kill Me is a nearly brilliant comedy. Surprising honesty and acceptance is the catalyst for humor in this off kilter comedy about an alcoholic hit man banished to San Francisco. Hit man Frank Falenczyk (Ben Kingsley) is ordered out of the state, Buffalo, NY to be exact, by his mob boss employer, Roman Krzeminski (Philip Baker Hall) when his drinking makes him screw up an important hit. Sent to San Francisco to attend AA, keep a job in a funeral home and only allowed to return when he has made sufficient steps in recovery. Tom (Luke Wilson), the good natured toll taker becomes his sponsor, guiding him through alcoholics anonymous, sober life, and dating. Uptight professional Laurel Pearson (Tea Leoni) finds something enchanting about him. Just to make sure he is on track with his recovery Roman sends a crazy and quirky accountant, Dave (Bill Pullman) to keep an eye on him. While Frank is away, his criminal family starts to go downhill. Sure, the drinking is funny, bu ... " [More]

A Not-So-Innocent Victim
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"A scene from Kirill Serebrenikov's Playing the Victim By Vadim Rizov "Russian cinema is in the ass," announces Valya (Yuri Chursin) at the beginning of Playing the Victim, Kirill Serebrenikov's third feature and second adaptation of a play by the Brothers Presnyakov. Then the film vigorously sets about disproving him. The first 20 minutes caused numerous walk-outs at the press screening, understandably so. The Brothers seems hellbent on being as shocking as a 13-year-old as his characters say "piss" and "shit" repeatedly, to generally unpleasant effect, and it's hard to tell whether they mean it or just want to put his viewers through an endurance test to kick things off and make us earn the good stuff. Somewhere along the line, things settle down into a compelling routine. Valya -- ostensibly an actor -- has the bizarre day job of re-enacting the role of the victim in murders. The killer is brought in to re-create the whole thing for the cameras while Valya does his best to pl ... " [More]

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