The Air I Breathe (2007)

Directed by

Jieho Lee

Genre

drama film, crime film, romance film

Country

Mexico, United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

R

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 401 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Four people each embody one of the four cornerstones of an ancient Chinese proverb: happiness, pleasure, sorrow, and love. Their separate stories in the criminal underworld gradually connect and intertwine.

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What happens

The Air I Breathe is a 2007 crime drama film and the directorial debut of Korean-American filmmaker Jieho Lee, who co-wrote the script with Bob DeRosa. The film stars Kevin Bacon, Julie Delpy, Brendan Fraser, Andy Garcia, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Emile Hirsch, and Forest Whitaker. The concept of the film is based on an ancient Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four emotional cornerstones – Happiness (Whitaker), Pleasure (Fraser), Sorrow (Gellar), and Love (Bacon). The proverb speaks of these emotions, not as isolated fragments of feelings, but as elements that make up the whole of human existence. Each of the four protagonists is based on one of the four emotions; and like the proverb their paths are inextricably linked to each other, akin to the Fingers (Garcia) of a hand. None of the four main characters' actual names are mentioned in the whole film, although Gellar's character's stage name, "Trista", is mentioned several times. The Air I Breathe was financed by NALA Investments through its production company NALA Films, and was released on January 25, 2008, in the United States. The film received mainly negative reviews from critics, but some of the cast's performances were praised with Gellar, Garcia, and Whitaker being singled out. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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