Subway (1985)
Directed by Luc Besson
Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen some documents. While hiding out in the back rooms and conduits of the Metro, Fred encounters a subterranean society of eccentric characters and petty criminals.
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I adored the earnest wonder of the deep-sea worlds of The Big Blue (1988) and Atlantis (1991), and the stylishly submerged, subterranean universe of Subway (1985), and also the childlike imagination he brought to genre fare like La Femme Nikita (1990), The Professional (1994), and The Fifth Element (1997).
He’s a key figure in the so-called Cinéma du look, a term coined by critic Raphaël Bassan in 1989 to describe the spectacular visual stylings of movies like Leos Carax’s Mauvais Sang and Besson’s Subway.
Alas, the director leans so much on his visual effects that he forgets to move the camera with the same urgency and style that propelled Subway and La Femme Nikita to cult status.
The Films of Luc Besson Le Dernier Combat Subway The Big Blue Nikita Atlantis Leon The Fifth Element (March 10/13) Loud, long, and overwhelming, The Fifth Element follows futuristic cab driver Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis) as he reluctantly agrees to help protect a mysterious woman (Milla Jovovich's Leeloo) from a wide variety of nefarious forces - including a larger-than-life arms dealer named Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg (Gary Oldman).
Y lo cierto es que la nueva película del director de Subway y El quinto elemento tiene más para ponderar que para defenestrar.
What about "Subway" (1985), "Le grand bleu" (1988), "Nikita" (aka "La Femme Nikita," 1990) and "Leon" (aka "The Professional," 1994), you ask?
Eclecticism has long been a way of life for Besson, a French filmmaker whose resume includes with such chic and cheeky collages as Subway, The Professional and La Femme Nikita.
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Sitting through his earlier, monotonous Subway (1985) and this new, more enjoyable, but still naggingly shallow film, I've sometimes gotten the feeling that he's seen only one movie in his life ?
La Femme Nikita, the new film from Luc Besson, the director of Subway and The Big Blue, illustrates the depressing Hollywoodization of many foreign films.
"La Femme Nikita" is a smart, hard-edged, psycho-romantic thriller by the young French director Luc Besson ("Subway"), who follows a condemned woman as she exchanges one doom for another.