On War (2008)
- Original title
- De la guerre
- Directed by
- Bertrand Bonello
- Genre
- drama film, comedy drama
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 2h 10m
- Rating
- 4.9 of 10 from 26 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A man going through an existential crisis gets involved with a cult that is fixated on pleasure. The film shows his experiences as he tries to find meaning.
philosophicaloffbeatunsettlingintrospectiveabsurdslow-pacedcerebraldarkly comicdreamlike
What happens
On War (French: De la guerre) is a 2008 French comedy-drama film directed by Bertrand Bonello and starring Mathieu Amalric, Laurent Lucas, Guillaume Depardieu, Asia Argento, Michel Piccoli and Léa Seydoux. It follows a man in the middle of an existential crisis as he gets drawn into a strange pleasure-obsessed cult. The film's title loosely refers to the treatise On War, by Carl von Clausewitz. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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