The air I breathe

Resource Information

The work The air I breathe represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Des Moines Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The air I breathe

Statement of responsibility

Thinkfilm and NALA Films present a NALA Films/Paul Schiff production in association with Inferno Distribution ; a film by Jieho Lee ; produced by Paul Schiff, Emilio Diez Barroso and Darlene Caaman̳o Loquet ; written by Jieho Lee & Bob DeRosa ; directed by Jieho Lee

Contributor

• Image Entertainment (Firm)
• Inferno Distribution (Firm)
• NALA Films
• Thinkfilm (Firm)
• Bacon, Kevin, 1958-
• Barroso, Emilio Diez
• DeRosa, Bob
• Delpy, Julie, 1969-
• Fraser, Brendan, 1968-
• Garcia, Andy
• Gellar, Sarah Michelle, 1977-
• Gregg, Clark, 1962-
• Hirsch, Emile, 1985-
• Lee, Jieho
• Loquet, Darlene Caamano, 1970-
• Schiff, Paul
• Whitaker, Forest

Subject

• Action and adventure films
• DVD videodisc
• Fate and fatalism -- Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Grief -- Drama
• Happiness -- Drama
• Interpersonal relations -- Drama
• Love -- Drama
• Pleasure -- Drama
• Proverbs, Chinese -- Drama
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)

Genre

• Action and adventure films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)

Language

• eng
• eng
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

A film based on an ancient Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four emotional cornerstones: happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love. Four very different people teetering on the edge of desperation are unexpectedly linked by their destinies. Filled with surprising twists and turns, this suspenseful, action-filled drama employs both brutal violence and aching poetry in a moving exploration of the search for happiness in a gritty urban world

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Walt Lloyd ; editor, Robert Hoffman ; music, Marcelo Zarvos ; costume designer, Michele Michel ; production designer, Bernardo Trujillo

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R; violence, language and some sexual content/nudity

Language note

English dialogue, Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

LC call number

PN1995.9.S87

LC item number

A37 2008

PerformerNote

Kevin Bacon, Julie Delpy, Brendan Fraser, Andy Garcia, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Clark Gregg, Emile Hirsch, Forest Whitaker

Runtime

95

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action