Killer Kid
- Miguel Courtois
- Gilles de Maistre
Younesse Boudache
company
- 22 June 1994 (1994-06-22)
Killer Kid is a 1994 French drama film directed by Gilles de Maistre, starring Tewfik Jallab and Younesse Boudache.
Plot
Two 11-year-old Arab boys become acquainted in France. One was raised in Lebanon where he was trained to kill efficiently and sent on a mission to commit a murder. The other was raised in France by an immigrant family and lives a life dominated by pop culture. The former comes to regard the latter as his role model.[1]
Production
Killer Kid is based on the 1989 novel with the same name by Claude Klotz.[2] It was the director Gilles de Maistre's first fiction film, after having made several documentaries.[1]
Reception
The film was shown in the Cannes Junior sidebar of the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize and Grand Prix du Public.[1] It was released in France on 22 June 1994.[3]
Lisa Nesselson of Variety said the story is propelled by a documentary-like filming style and that the musical score has a "sinister verve", calling it a "harsh but engaging" non-political film about fanaticism.[1]
References
External links
- Killer Kid at IMDb
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- Killer Kid (1994)
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