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Don't Let Me Die On a Sunday

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This film is quite exceptional, because it is a study of the social climate of the last decade, with references to sex and death. The plot revolves around the dysfunctional relationship between the lead characters (a morgue worker and an ecstacy junkie), an aids victim, a guy with suicidal tendencies, a person obsessed with orgies and a guy with no love life. In this film, the director has done an excellent job in blurring the line between good and evil in a systematic way. Well worth watching if you are a fan of french cinema and can appreciate their somewhat sardonic view of life.

It opens in club-land; flashing lights and writhing bodies. The protagonists work in a hospital, in the morgue. An event takes place that sets off a chain of responses; one, stunningly surprising. To mention the event would give the entire plot away. The plot becomes divergent. Weird things start happening. I continued watching, wondering what the point might be. It's certainly complicated. Club-land returns. More unfathomable stuff follows and then... It's a curious film on which the point was certainly missed by me.

Ian Hunter.
Author of `e-Love'.

Dark and explicit, 1998's "Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday" is French exploration of deviation and pushing sexual boundaries as a means of relieving life's tedium. It is a disturbing psychological journey of mismatched souls looking for connection, depth, or any kind of intimacy in a post-HIV landscape. While I was certainly inclined to appreciate the controversial nature of the film, it left me somewhat cold. In order for the experience to be truly successful, I felt a greater need to connect with the psyche of its lead characters. Lacking a true understanding of their twistedness and dissatisfaction, the film works primarily as a voyeuristic excursion into an unpleasant realm. Still worth seeing by adventurous adult audiences, the movie should have and could have been a harrowing and wrenching roller-coaster ride into darkness. KGHarris, 8/11.

What can you say about a bunch of people sitting around and watching a friend die from Aids. The story was dismal from start to finish. The characters were unlikeable for the most part. This is one I would file in my BIG MISTAKE folder, as it was a big mistake to have ordered it. Some might call it "Avant Garde", but I call it trash and a complte waste of the actor's & director's time to make it.