A beautiful junkie condemned to death for the murder of a policeman is given a chance to live - as a secret political assassin controlled by the government. Her lonely existence is warmed when she falls in love with a gentle, humorous man who knows nothing of her bizarre and mysterious life. Remade in the U.S. as POINT OF NO .. Read more
| Starring | Anne Parillaud, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Jean Reno, Jeanne Moreau |
|---|---|
| Director | Luc Besson |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller, World Cinema |
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A beautiful junkie condemned to death for the murder of a policeman is given a chance to live - as a secret political assassin controlled by the government. Her lonely existence is warmed when she falls in love with a gentle, humorous man who knows nothing of her bizarre and mysterious life. Remade in the U.S. as POINT OF NO RETURN and in Hong Kong as BLACK CAT. It was also the basis for the popular US cable television series.
| Starring | Anne Parillaud, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Jean Reno, Jeanne Moreau, Tcheky Karyo, Tchéky Karyo |
|---|---|
| Director | Luc Besson |
| Studio | OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 52 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 56 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Feisty Females |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: French Blu-ray: French |
| Dubbed | English, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish Blu-ray: English |
| Released | DVD: 31 Mar 2003 Blu-ray: 14 Sep 2009 Production year: 1990 |
| Format | DVD |
After being involved in a robbery, vicious junkie Anne Parillaud is reprogrammed as an assassin for a secret government agency in this extremely exciting thriller with a feminist slant from French director Luc Besson. In paying homage to American action movies, Besson goes one better than his clear inspirations, to craft a beautifully stylised, enthralling and very violent comic strip. Parillaud (married to Besson at the time) is tremendous as the unscrupulous hit woman and Jeanne Moreau's Charm Teacher cameo is a gem. But it's Besson's boldly modern approach to traditional film noir material that makes this elemental mind-blower so striking.
"...A slick, calculating mixture of French contemplativeness and American flying glass....[Parillaud is] a nimble and dangerous-looking actress..."
This original Luc Besson version is darker and more believable than the american version with Bridget Fonda (The assassin), It must be watched in French with the subtitles on, It is worth the effort. Do not be tempted to turn the English dubbing on cos it will spoil the film. In the French language a lot more emotion and depth is convayed. The plot is good and this is a film worth a look even if you are not the 'usual' foreign film watcher.
This is the one to watch. Keep away from the dreadful remake with Bridgit Fonda in The Assassins.
The curse of the videogame movie strikes again! The Eidos shoot-em-up game gets the Luc Besson treatment here, by way of proxy director Xavier Gens. Apparently Vin Diesel was first choice for the role of two-gun killer Agent 47. Instead we get Timothy Olyphant, a more limited actor (!) best known, I guess, for having Ian McShane run rings around him in Deadwood. He's gone the whole hog and shaved off his hair, the better to show off the barcode tattooed on his skull - the kind of flip... Read more