The Air I Breathe
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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 Air I Breathe | |
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Directed by | Jieho Lee |
Written by | Jieho Lee Bob DeRosa |
Produced by | Darlene Caamaño Emilio Diez Barroso Paul Schiff |
Starring | Kevin Bacon Julie Delpy Brendan Fraser Andy Garcia Sarah Michelle Gellar Emile Hirsch Forest Whitaker |
Cinematography | Walt Lloyd |
Music by | Marcelo Zarvos |
Distributed by | THINKFilm |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $2.6 million[1] |
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 the 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.