{{Infobox film | name = Killer Kid | image = killer-kid.jpg | caption = | director = Gilles de Maistre | producer = Jean-François Lepetit | screenplay = {{ubl|Miguel Courtois|Gilles de Maistre}} | based_on = ''Killer Kid'' by Claude Klotz | starring = Tewfik Jallab<br />Younesse Boudache | cinematography = Jean-Bernard Aurouet | music = René Aubry | editing = Robert Coursez | studio = Flach Film | distributor = AFMD | released = {{Film date|df=y|1994|6|22}} | runtime = 90 minutes | country = France | language = French | budget = }} '''''Killer Kid''''' is a 1994 French drama film directed by Gilles de Maistre, starring Tewfik Jallab and Younesse Boudache.
==Plot== Two 11-year-old Arab boys become acquainted in France. One was raised in Lebanon, where he was trained to kill efficiently and sent on a mission to commit a murder. The other was raised in France by an immigrant family and lives a life dominated by pop culture. The former comes to regard the latter as his role model.<ref name=":1">{{cite news |last=Nesselson |first=Lisa |date=31 July 1994 |url=https://variety.com/1994/film/reviews/killer-kid-1200409191/ |title=Killer Kid |newspaper=Variety |access-date=1 May 2023 }}</ref>
==Production== ''Killer Kid'' is based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Claude Klotz.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1994/06/23/cinema-killer-kid-de-gilles-de-maistre_3814226_1819218.html |title=Cinéma Killer Kid de Gilles de Maistre |newspaper=Le Monde |language=fr |access-date=1 May 2023 }}</ref> It was the director Gilles de Maistre's first fiction film, after having made several documentaries.<ref name=":1" />
==Reception== The film was shown in the Cannes Junior sidebar of the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize and Grand Prix du Public.<ref name=":1" /> It was released in France on 22 June 1994.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.unifrance.org/film/10198/killer-kid |title=Killer Kid |website=Unifrance |language=fr |access-date=1 May 2023 }}</ref>
Lisa Nesselson of ''Variety'' said that the story is propelled by a documentary-like filming style and that the musical score has a "sinister verve", calling it a "harsh but engaging" non-political film about fanaticism.<ref name=":1" />
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Category:1994 films Category:French drama films Category:Films directed by Gilles de Maistre Category:Films based on French novels Category:Films about immigration to France