Made before France took its capital-punishment laws off the books for good,
Claude Lelouch’s harrowing drama
La Vie, l'amour, la mort (1969) is something of a European arthouse equivalent to
Dead Man Walking (1995).
Amidou stars as François Toledo, a married father who makes a bad habit of strangling prostitutes in the dimly-lit backstreets of Paris. The disturbed killer experiences something of a
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