I Hired a Contract Killer

by Aki Kaurismäki, Margi Clarke Jean-Pierre Léaud, Tony Rohr

$250 · Offered by Royal Books

N.p. N.p., Circa 1990. Vintage reference photograph from the 1990 film, showing Jean-Pierre Léaud paying director Aki Kaurismäki in a cameo role, as a salesman sporting dark glasses . Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso.A depressed young man longs to commit suicide after losing his job, but finds himself too afraid to go through with it—leading him to hire a killer to take him out. Shot on location

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