La Vie, L'Amour, La Mort
La Vie, L'Amour, La Mort directed by Claude Lelouch in 1968

starring
Amidou, Caroline Cellier, Jeanine Magnan & Catherine Samie

La Vie, L'Amour, La MortThe Story

Awaiting execution for murder, Souad Amidou reflects on the events leading up to this sorry contingency. It seems that Amidou can only cohabit with prostitutes, thus he seeks out satisfaction in all the side streets of Europe. Disturbed by a whore's insults when he was unable to perform, Amidou goes completely off the deep end and begins cutting a swath of death from one end of Spain to another. Lelouch's principal stylistic decision in Life Love and Death is to draw as many parallels as possible between sex and bullfighting.
Hal Erickson