A Pygmalion tale about a dirty-mouthed, drug-addicted, gang-enrolled Galatea who, after killing a cop, is drafted by a nebulous intelligence agency as a usefully malleable talent. Released back into society as a trained assassin, she embarks in her free time on a girlish romance with a grocery clerk, kept blissfully in the dark about her secret identity (code name: "Josephine"). Luc Besson, who earlier made Subway and then an unprofitable foray into the English-language market, The Big Blue, has tricked out this rubbish with Hollywood quotas of glitter, glamour, and firepower. Three possibilities occur: one, he wanted Hollywood to purchase the rights to a remake (starring, most likely, Julia Roberts) as it did to Three Men and a Cradle, et al.; two, he wanted to be invited to Hollywood himself; three, both. Another possibility beckons: that he was working at the apex of his artistic and intellectual capabilities. But why be cynical? Anne Parillaud, Jean-Hughes Anglade, Tcheky Karyo, Jeanne Moreau. (1990) — Duncan Shepherd
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