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Mortal Transfer (2001)
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Original name: Mortel transfert
Genre: Comedy, Thriller, Crime
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Michel, a psycho-analyst, falls asleep while listening to his patient Olga, a kleptomaniac and a sexual pervert, tell him how she likes her husband beating her. When he wakes up, he finds Olga having been choked to death. He now has to deal with a body, with Olga's rich husband who thinks she stole money from him, and with all his patients' insanity that haunts him.
Style:
surreal, psychological thriller, absurd, psychotronic, buddy comedy, tense, suspense, dark, noir, crime drama ...
Plot:
corpse, psychoanalyst, sadomasochism, dark humor, murder mystery, stranded, loneliness, life & death, surrealism, life philosophy, gross out humor, magic realism, unlikely friendships, psychoanalysis, secrets, guilt, investigation, obsession, sexual perversion, mental illness, mind game, paranoia, moral ambiguity, haunting, ethical dilemma ...
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