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Already Dead (Déjà Mort) - a film by Olivier Dahan

Prix Louis Delluc, 1998

"A volcanic style rarely seen amongst young French directors."
- Liberation

"Dark but brilliant."
- Studio Magazine

Already Dead is the pulsating story of four twenty-year-olds on the road to nowhere. These reckless youth fight their way into the adult world using any and all means at their disposal.

Laure is young and beautiful and willing to try anything to escape the drudgery of her small provincial town. Andrea, a pizza delivery boy, meets Romain and David at the local go-kart track. Porno photographers both, Andrea is dazzled by their slick self-confidence and promises to introduce them to an even more beautiful model.

Soon, Laure and Andrea are drawn into the sex-and-drugs, parent-free lifestyle of their new friends in magnificent villas on the French Riviera. Andrea looks helplessly on as Laure first takes David as her lover, and then agrees to his suggestion to act in porn movies. Inevitably, Laure and Andrea, Romain and David are swept out of their depth into a whirlpool of sex and violence they have no chance of controlling.

 

1998, France, 108 minutes, In French with English subtitles. MON092