Un beso antes de morir

Autumn in a lakeside college town, moored boats creak under a sodium-yellow streetlamp. A son of the middle class slips into the life of a steel heiress through stolen glances and coded letters. Jonathan calculates every touch; Dorothy reads only love before the plunge into dark water. Ellen arrives in a borrowed coat, counting identical buttons along the ragged shore. Every matchbox and lipstick tube now lines a case file. A minor ’90s neo-noir that mistakes glamour for menace.

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James Dearden directed Un beso antes de morir in 1991. See James Dearden's full filmography, where to start with James Dearden, or where to go after you've seen everything by James Dearden.

Un beso antes de morir was released in 1991 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 95 minutes.