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Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday(J'aimerais pas crever un dimanche)

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France · 1998
1h 30m
Director Didier Le Pêcheur
Starring Élodie Bouchez, Jean-Marc Barr, Patrick Catalifo, Gérard Loussine
Genre Drama

Ben works in a morgue. Ben's wife left him and he is into various kinds of alternative sexuality. Teresa dies of an ecstasy overdose on the dance floor. When she is brought to the morgue, she is resurrected -how shall I say?- in Ben's arms (that part based on a true story). From this starting point, the film revolves around the interactions between them and Boris (orgy fan), Abdel (no sentimental life), Ducon (wants to kill himself), Nico (dying of AIDS), etc... A social study of the 90s with heavy references to sex and deat

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30

Film.com by Ernest Hardy

In trying to avoid moralizing or cheap sensationalizing, Didier sidestepped any energy force altogether and his film snoozes because of it.

38

New York Daily News by Jack Mathews

Underdeveloped and badly diluted by overlong -- and overly stylized -- forays into the drug use, street hustling and cultural alienation that mostly affects the boys' friends.

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