Killing Zoe

Killing Zoe is a 1994 AmericanFrench crime film written and directed by Roger Avary and starring Eric Stoltz, JeanHugues Anglade and Julie Delpy. The story details a safe cracker named Zed who returns to France to aid an old friend in performing a doomed bank heist. Killing Zoe is regarded as a respected cult favorite and has been labeled by Roger Ebert as Generation Xs first bank caper movie.

Eric takes Zed back to his residence where Zed meets Erics friends. Eric explains his plans the following day is Bastille Day and virtually everything is closed except for the bank they plan to rob, which is a holding bank and is open on holidays. Zed forgoes his rest time to spend the night partying with Eric and his friends among some of the less reputable people of Paris in a cavernous jazz club, which Eric refers to as the Real Paris. During the binging, Eric confides to Zed that he has AIDS, which he contracted through IV drug use.The next day, Zed is awakened by Eric as they prepare to enter the bank. The team dons carnival masks to hide their faces before bursting into the bank. They quickly kill those who do not cooperate as they escort Zed who has not witnessed the killings to the safe so he can get to work. Their plans soon start to disintegrate as the police show up and theyre faced with the possibility of going to jail for life or having to shoot their way out. Eric throws an explosive into a vault and enters it mortally wounding a guard in the process Zed himself shoots the guard as an act of mercy, finding a large supply of gold bars but the thieves cant leave the bank alive with their fortune. Tensions become even higher when Zed recognizes Zoe who coincidentally works at the bank and attempts to protect her, to the fury of Eric, who viciously slashes Zeds cheek with a knife. ........

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