Merci la vie (English: "Thank You, Life") is a 1991 French film written and directed by Bertrand Blier.

Naive schoolgirl Camille Pelleveau meets the slightly older and more experienced Joëlle, a promiscuous woman who has just been thrown out of a car by her abusive boyfriend.

Joëlle also shows Camille the darker side of life, as they start by crashing the men's cars and then decide to take on the whole town.

However, medical researcher Dr. Marc Antoine Worms has invented a sexually transmitted disease and used Joëlle as a guinea pig by infecting her with it, so that he could become famous as the discoverer of its cure.

The surreal plot and series of stylized scenes is in keeping with postmodern cinema, which challenges the notion of original creative thought.