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Don't Let It Kill You (1967)

Don't Let It Kill You poster
Original title
Il ne faut pas mourir pour ça
Directed by
Jean Pierre Lefebvre
Genre
drama film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 15m
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man named Abel goes through a series of ordinary days in Montreal. He meets different people and reflects on his life and his relationships.

melancholicslow-burncontemplativenaturalisticunderstatedintimatebleakquiet

What happens

Don't Let It Kill You (French: Il ne faut pas mourir pour ça) is a 1967 French-Canadian feature from Jean Pierre Lefebvre. It is the first film in his "Abel Trilogy", followed by The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died (Le Vieux pays où Rimbaud est mort) in 1977 and Now or Never (Aujourd'hui ou jamais) in 1998. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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