Too much love will kill you
A Russian woman runs away her boring Parisian life and land in Beirut, city of chaos and violence, in order to work as a cabaret dancer. She meets marginal people who are taking her in an endless drift-away...
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Christophe KarabacheDirector
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Christophe KarabacheWriter
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Marina KitaevaKey Cast
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Project Type:Experimental, Feature
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Runtime:1 hour 47 minutes 5 seconds
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Completion Date:July 3, 2012
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Country of Origin:France
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Country of Filming:Lebanon
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Language:Arabic
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Louisville's International Festival of FilmLouisville
United States
September 30, 2012 -
The Hong Kong ArtHouse Film Festival
June 22, 2016 -
Lebanese Film FestivalSydney
Australia
September 12, 2013 -
MJC PicaudCannnes
France
December 9, 2012 -
Cinema Studio GalandeParis
January 23, 2013
Premiere (Theatrical release) -
L' Âge d'Or International Arthouse Film FestivalCalcutta
India
Outstanding Achievement Award (Post-Modern Film)
Distribution Information
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Visiosfeir DistributionCountry: France
Christophe Karabache is a French-Lebanese filmmaker.
Born in Beirut in 1979, he completed his Masters in Cinema Studies at Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle (France) and through a joint program at The University of Iowa (USA).
Karabache began his exploration of film at l’Etna, an alternative workshop in Paris. He initially made short experimental films (on super-8 & 16mm).
His current filmmaking practice shifts between documentary and fiction (on digital video and HD).
His films have been showcased at several international film festivals (in the USA, Lebanon, New Caledonia, Bosnia, Canada, UK, Greece, France, Benin, Australia, Hungary, Mexico, Germany, Mongolia, Switzerland, Romania, Portugal, Spain, Russia, etc.) and commercially released in movie theaters in France.
Too Much Love Will Kill You is about identity and power. The film combines irony and absurdity with a great deal of heartfelt feeling as it tells the story of a Russian girl who runs away her boring Parisian life and land in Beirut, city of chaos, in order to work as a cabaret dancer. She meets marginal people and prostitutes who are taking her in an endless drift-away. Inspired by Fassbinder, Pasolini and Tarkovsky, the film composes like a realistic nightmare with simplicity and a critical perspective on society.
We travel in Too Much Love Will Kill You: The film opens in Paris with the impossible love and continues in Lebanon, country of war, political crises, fascism in everyday life, cruelty…
The film explores the disappointments of marginal urban life and shows the horrifyingly bare and mechanical reality of working life in society if it allows materialism to become more important than its inhabitants.