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Clubbed to Death (film)

1996 film directed by Yolande Zauberman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ953744 ↗
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Clubbed to Death (also known as Lola or Clubbed to Death (Lola)) is a 1996 French film starring Élodie Bouchez, directed by Yolande Zauberman, and co-written by Zauberman and Noémie Lvovsky. The film concerns a love triangle that forms between 20-year-old Lola (Bouchez) and the couple she encounters at an all-night rave.

Plot

Cast

Élodie Bouchez as Lola

Roschdy Zem as Emir

Béatrice Dalle as Saida

Richard Courcet as Ismael

Gérald Thomassin as Paul

Luc Lavandier as Pierre

Alex Descas as Mambo

Julie Bataille as Johanna

Philippe Roux as Bus Driver

References

Further reading

Darke, Chris (2000). Light Readings: Film Criticism and Screen Art. Wallflower Press. pp. 147–8. ISBN 9781903364079. Retrieved 27 May 2010.

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“Clubbed to Death (film)” enters the record as 1996 film directed by Yolande Zauberman. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Clubbed, Death and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q953744. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996, 2000 and 2010.

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