THE AIR I BREATHE

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Director: Jieho Lee
Screenplay: Bob DeRosa
Gellar's role: Sorrow/Trysta
With: Kevin Bacon, Forest Whitaker, Brendan Fraser
US Release Date: 29 April 2007
Length: 95 minutes
Genre: Drama

The story is based on an ancient Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four emotional cornerstones: happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love. In a series of interrelated vignettes, a businessman bets his life on a horse race; a gangster sees the future; a pop star named Trysta (Gellar) falls prey to a crime boss; and a doctor must save the love of his life.

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The first thing we see is a quote from 19th century abolitionist preacher Henry Ward Beecher. Beecher was a Bill Clinton-like progressive, and the quote reads: "No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form." Reminiscent of Kurt Vonnegut's style of story-telling, the film is thought-provoking and cinematically striking.

Trysta saw her father struck and killed by a car when she was a child.

One of the flashbacks with Julie Delpy is from VOYAGER, a film Delpy did with Sam Shepard, who played Gellar's father in THE RETURN.

On the soundtrack, which has not been issued on CD, The Concretes perform a song called "Tomorrow" written by their ex-lead-singer Victoria Bergsman who is now with Taken By Trees.

Gellar does not sing in this film. "Sweet Spot" sung by her popstar character Trysta is voiced by Kim Wayman.

THE AIR I BREATHE can be streamed on TUBI, and is on DVD and Blu-Ray.

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