Deux heures à vivre

"Deux Heures A Vivre " is a two-bit thriller,with a very low budget and appalling acting;it seems that some of them are amateurs and their playing often verges on involuntary parody.Directing is very poor,using close shots probably to hide the paucity of the screenplay and the seediness of the settings .

The story :two brothers ,who were both gangsters when they were Young;but one of them went straight,got married and became an accountant (another way to work with the banknotes);but his sibling did not call it a day and he 's just robbed a sizable sum ;unfortunately he is killed and his accomplices would like to know where the loot is.They suspect the respectable father.

The good brother begins his descent into hell :first he is fired by his boss ("people will talk and your brother's reputation can't do any good to our firm"),his wife is about to file for divorce,his mistress dies (but this only seems a little detail for the writer),and both the police and the gangsters are hot on his heels .

As many European movies of the early seventies,the movie fills its quota of nudity (the hero's lover) and violence (the hero is tortured,beaten black and blue ).There's also a sad song which begins and ends the movie.

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