The films of
Luc Besson
Le Dernier combat (1983)
Luc Besson 		  Subway (1985)
Luc Besson 		  Le Grand bleu (1988)
Luc Besson 		 
     
Luc Besson’s first full-length film is this extraordinarily bizarre yet stunningly realised post-apocalyptic drama which demands at least three viewings to make sense of it...  [More...]   Subway was the film that brought fame and international notoriety to French film director Luc Besson. It is a psychedelic, electrically charged excursion into 1980s punk surrealism...  [More...]   Luc Besson’s most personal film is a haunting visual elegy concerned with one man’s passion to be united with the sea he loves and another man’s obsession to dominate it...  [More...]  
Nikita (1990)
Luc Besson 		  Atlantis (1991)
Luc Besson 		  Léon (1994)
Luc Besson 		 
     
Although it has not aged particularly well, Nikita was one of the most influential films of the 1990s. It further raised the profile of contraversial director Luc Besson and had great influence on subsequent films of...  [More...]   Luc Besson’s ode to the beauty of the marine world is as captivating and poetic as anything produced by the famous marine explorer Jacques Cousteau...  [More...]   With Léon, French film director Luc Besson followed the successful formula he skilfully engineered in his earlier film Nikita, creating another fast-moving action movie based around the traumatised lives of its...  [More...]  
The Fifth Element (1997)
Luc Besson 		  The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
Luc Besson 		  Angel-A (2005)
Luc Besson 		 
     
Having established himself as a world class director through his films The Big Blue, Nikita and Léon, French director Luc Besson took on his most ambitious project to date and created a film which quickly became...  [More...]   Luc Besson’s version of the Joan of Arc story is original and exciting, but sadly lacks the impact and flair of earlier attempts by other French film directors (most notably Dreyer’s La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc...  [More...]   When it was first released in 2005, Angel-A offered two high profile comebacks for the price of one. First and foremost, it marked Luc Besson’s long-awaited return to directing after a five year absence...  [More...]  





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