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LIFE KILLS ME Plays at SLIFF 2013 This Friday – We Are Movie Geeks

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LIFE KILLS ME Plays at SLIFF 2013 This Friday

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Director Sebastián Silva is now known for Sundance award-winner “The Maid” and the recent Michael Cera film “Crystal Fairy,” but before establishing his lofty international reputation, he debuted with “Life Kills Me,” which the Global Lens series springs from the vault for a welcome reassessment. Life and death come wrapped in a mutual embrace, both absurd and poignant, in this smart comedy about an unlikely friendship between a grieving cinematographer and a morbidly obsessed drifter. At work on a seriously schlocky, low-budget horror film, Gaspar is still reeling from the untimely death of his beloved older brother when he meets Alvaro at yet another premature funeral. A mildly sociopathic young man with an unyielding curiosity for the dark side, Alvaro soon coaxes Gaspar out of his shell in unexpected ways. The savvy film site Twitch calls “Life Kills Me” the “film equivalent of a Smiths song: the chirpy, stylish exterior masking a melancholic core and a longing for something better.”

Robert Koehler at Variety says of LIFE KILLS ME:

“Diaz provides a fascinating central performance, maintaining a dry cool while registering as alternately on top of things or slightly dazed by forces he can’t quite grasp. His Gaspar proves crucial, since it could well be — and Silva’s half-surrealist style infers it–that much of what he’s perceiving is informed by his cinematic imagination.”

LIFE KILLS ME screens Friday November 15th at 1:45pm at Plaza Frontenac Theater as part of the St. Louis International Film Festival

Ticket information can be found HERE

http://www.cinemastlouis.org/life-kills-me-0