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Garrick L. Hamm
Writer/Director
“I make films with heart and humour — visually bold, verbally sharp, and always aiming to move an audience.”
'How's the pain?'
A blackly comic, brutal and moving road story, adapted from Pascal Garnier’s acclaimed novella.
Garnier’s been described by The Telegraph as “a brilliant exercise in grim and gripping irony, making you grin as well as wince.”
His tone sits somewhere between In Bruges and Killing Eve — darkly comic, stylish, and character-driven —
Reimagined here with an older female lead rather than the usual hitman or femme fatale.
How's the Pain? - Is an off-kilter, blackly comic novel about an unlikely duo of a soon-to-be-retired assassin and a deadbeat young man, from the 'slyly funny' [Sunday Times] Pascal Garnier.'Deliciously dark ... painfully funny' New York Times Death is Simon's business. And now the ageing vermin exterminator is preparing to die. But he still has one last job down on the coast, and he needs a driver.Bernard is twenty-one. He can drive and he's never seen the sea. He can't pass up the chance to chauffeur for Simon, whatever his mother may say. As the unlikely pair set off on their journey, Bernard soon finds that Simon's definition of vermin is broader than he'd expected ... Veering from the hilarious to the horrific, this offbeat story from master stylist Pascal Garnier is at heart an affecting study of human frailty.
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