Nikita (1990)
Directed by Luc Besson
A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance – as a secret political assassin controlled by the government.
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La Femme Nikita, which is like a cross between A Clockwork Orangeand John le Carre's The Little Drummer Girl, is structured as a game that caves in on itself.
There is also an echo of "A Clockwork Orange" in here somewhere, but the hints are too vague to consider.
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 Jean-Jacques Beineix's smash hit, Diva.
Beineix, along with Luc Besson (Subway, La Femme Nikita) and Leos Carax (Bad Blood), was tagged as a director whose films of the 1980s have the ravishing high gloss and urban chic of a magazine fashion spread.
Jean-Jacques Beineix's smash hit, Diva.
The emaciated storyline fixates relentlessly on an intensifying partnership between the eponymous Betty (Béatrice Dalle) and her blithely deadbeat lover Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade, who would later riff on his obliquely emasculated persona in La Femme Nikita).
That's when I realized: what I know about the work of Jean-Hugues Anglade you could fit on the head of a pin; I've only seen him in one other performance, as Zorg in Betty Blue (a.k.a.
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.