'Anna' is Luc Besson's return to making movies about beautiful, deadly women who kill — and makes it hard to forget about what's happening offscreen around the filmmaker. Our review
All you need for a movie, Jean-Luc Godard famously declared, is a gun and a girl. His fellow French filmmaker Luc Besson has taken the maxim to heart, albeit with a few upgrades. You could also throw in a knife or two, for example. If the “girl” — a grown woman, really — happens to be adept at a close-combat fighting style and can use a white fur coat straight outtato tangle up opponents while she kicks the crap out of them, that’d be a nice bonus.
It’s hard not to think of Godard’s beautiful reduction of an entire art form to sex-and-violence sensationalism when you watchor more specifically, the action thriller’s big set piece. To set the scene: Anna is a Russian beauty who’s been living the swank parties-and-photoshoots life of a professional model. In reality, the lithe Eastern European twentysomething is an undercover killer for the KGB, because of course she is.
apparatchik named Olga , want to test her mettle. Anna is handed a gun. She must enter a restaurant, find an enemy of the state and shoot him through the head. The task has to be completed in five minutes, give or take. After that, she’s on her own.So the swan-like assassin sashays through the establishment, walks up to the target, pulls the trigger … and the pistol is empty. Anna will have to improvise.
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