2008 · comedy
A Pain in the Ass
Directed by Francis Veber1h 26m2008
An unlikely friendship develops between a hitman and a suicidal guy who have both checked into the same hotel for different reasons.
Our read: A Pain in the Ass (2008) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- cold
- funny
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