# The Ax (2005)

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**Original title**: *Le Couperet*
**Runtime**: 118 min
**Genres**: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
**Directed by**: Costa-Gavras
**Written by**: Costa-Gavras, Jean-Claude Grumberg
**Starring**: José Garcia, Karin Viard, Ulrich Tukur, Olivier Gourmet, Yvon Back, Thierry Hancisse

> *Some people would die to get (him) this job.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Paper-company corridor, Wednesday noon, the hum of a dying printer.

Bruno’s severance package arrives on a Tuesday. His résumé circles back unopened. Their savings drawer yawns empty.

Costa-Gavras slyly raids Kafka for a joke too bleak to laugh.

**Mood tags**: outsider, pitch-black, slow-burn

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