Synopsis
A business executive, who was fired by his company after it underwent restructuring, is ready to do anything to get his job back - even if it means killing his rivals.
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Production and distribution (6)
- Executive Producer : KG Productions
- Co-productions : STUDIOCANAL, France 2 Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : Les Films du Fleuve, SCOPE Pictures
- Film exports/foreign sales : STUDIOCANAL
- French distribution : Mars Distribution
- News agency (France) : Moteur !
Full credits (13)
- Executive Producer : Michèle Ray Gavras
- Assistant Director : Joseph Rapp
- Adaptation : Jean-Claude Grumberg
- Associate producer : Geneviève Lemal
- Sound recordists : Nicolas Naegelen, Nicolas Moreau, Thomas Gauder
- Director of Photography : Patrick Blossier
- Production Manager : Yvon Crenn
- Press Attachés (film) : Dominique Segall, Laurent Renard
- Editor : Yannick Kergoat
- Continuity supervisor : Marika Piedboeuf
- Production Designer : Laurent Deroo
- Music Composer : Armand Amar
- Costume designer : Laurence Marechal
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Thriller
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Belgium, Spain
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Belgium, Spain)
- Production year : 2004
- French release : 02/03/2005
- Runtime : 2 h 2 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 110.116
- Visa issue date : 13/01/2005
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
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About
The Ax by Costa-Gravas (Le Couperet, France, 2005, 122 min.). A laid-off worker devises a novel approach to finding a new job—by “eliminating” any fellow applicants—in this mercilessly entertaining comedy from director Costa-Gavras. Based on a novel by American author Donald E. Westlake, The Ax puts outsourcing, downsizing, and other 21st-century business trends where they belong: on the chopping block. When we first meet the middle-aged Bruno, he appears to be a not-so-polished international assassin, but as he confesses his life’s story, we realize that murder is merely a stepping stone to a less (or more) ruthless dream: to rejoin corporate life. José García gives Bruno a bumbling appeal in his single-minded approach to avoiding “the ax.” The film takes the logic of capitalism to its illogical extreme. Description adapted from the San Francisco International Film Festival.
