Quirky British comedy
This is not your average British film: the DVD box may say 'Tarantino meets Ritchie' but it's more 'Burn After Reading' mixed with the more earnest 'The American', a world populated with shady Brits running riot in the South of France, each pursuing their own hopes and dreams and their fates colliding one sunny day in Cannes.
The story is eclectic and original, although a variation on a theme: after a long career killing people, obsessive-compulsive hitman Charles decides to retire to the South of France to find a wife and a yacht but with zero experience of either as he suffers from a brand of social autism. Nevertheless, he hires coquettish Lisa to provide him with certain 'services' in a wonderfully-scripted scene, and, after claiming a
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