- Le Couperet
Infobox_Film
name = Le Couperet
image_size= 175px
imdb_id = 0422015
writer =Jean-Claude Grumberg
Costa-Gavras
starring = José GarciaKarin Viard Olivier Gourmet
director =Costa-Gavras
producer =Michèle Ray-Gavras
cinematography=Patrick Blossier
distributor =Mars Distribution
released =2005
runtime = 122 min
language =
budget ="Le Couperet" is a Belgian-French-Spanish (
2005 ) film. The English title of this film is "The Axe".Directed by
Costa Gavras and starring José Garcia, Karin Viard andOlivier Gourmet , "Le Couperet" is a thrilling adaptation of the novel "The Ax" byDonald E. Westlake . The film follows the "hero", Bruno D. (Garcia), trying to do the right thing but having no choice than to take the wrong path.Garcia's character is a middle-aged, middle-class, and middle-management positioned executive in paper industry who suddenly becomes unemployed. Surprisingly, his methods of competing in the work-force market are everything but ordinary.
The thirty-nine years old executive Bruno Davert has been working for fifteen years in a paper company. After a merging operation with a Romania's company, he is fired in a downsizing. While unemployed for two years, Bruno loses his self-esteem and sanity and his family loses the middle-class lifestyle without cable television, Internet and regular consumption. He concludes that there is too much competition in his sector for a few job positions and decides to literally eliminate his competitors, killing those more qualified than him.
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