I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)

Directors

Aki Kaurismäki

Cast

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Margi Clarke, Kenneth Colley, Imogen Claire, Nicky Tesco, Michael O'Hagan, Aki Kaurismäki

The story

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. Without a job or friends, Henri decides to end his life but his attempt at hanging himself and gassing himself in the oven both fail.

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