"It has been many years since Aramis, Athos, Porthos and d'Artagnan fought together as the bravest and the best of the King's Royal Guards, known as The Musketeers. It is 1660 and France is starving. The once great King has been succeeded by his arrogant and cruel heir, King Louis XIV (DiCaprio). While at the Bastille, a mysterious prisoner has lived for nearly a decade encased in an iron mask. To save a nation, the Musketeers must reuni ..."
"Sur un tournage, les atermoiements d'une réalisatrice passionnée, en butte avec ses comédiens, ses techniciens et les figurants qui ne font jamais ce qu'on leur demande ! Catherine Breillat a voulu retranscrire à l'écran ses expérience de metteur en scène, dans un film, même si elle s'en défend, égotiste et acide. Une peinture du milieu du cinéma, sur les interrogations d'une artiste en pleine crise d'inspiration. Dans cette comédie ace ..."
"Sur un tournage, les atermoiements d'une réalisatrice passionnée, en butte avec ses comédiens, ses techniciens et les figurants qui ne font jamais ce qu'on leur demande ! Catherine Breillat a voulu retranscrire à l'écran ses expérience de metteur en scène, dans un film, même si elle s'en défend, égotiste et acide. Une peinture du milieu du cinéma, sur les interrogations d'une artiste en pleine crise d'inspiration. Dans cette comédie ace ..."
"Thème classique de la science-fiction, la robotisation de l'être humain, ici par manipulation psychologique, a inspiré à Luc Besson un film qui vise à une certaine ambition philosophique en posant le problème de l'intégrité individuelle face au totalitarisme. Malgré quelques faiblesses de détail et une évidente maladresse dans le registre strictement psychologique, Nikita possède une force expressive qui rend son propos convaincant ..."
"John Landis was the perfect director for Innocent Blood, a horror-comedy hybrid that does for French vampires in Pittsburgh what Landis's An American Werewolf in London did for hungry lycanthropes in Picadilly Square. Anne Parillaud, the sexy star of La Femme Nikita, is perfectly cast as a beguiling vampire who must feed regularly on human blood, and when she spots a local Mafia kingpin (Robert Loggia), she says to herself, "I think I'l ..."
"Luc Bessons Nikita war ein Trendsetter - und ironischerweise ist das genau der Grund, warum viele Leute ihn nicht kennen. Der stilbildende, französische Thriller von 1990 machte seinerzeit soviel Eindruck, dass Hollywood bereits drei Jahre später ein Remake drehte: Codename: Nina mit Bridget Fonda, der als US-Kinohit inzwischen weit größere Bekanntheit genießt. Seitdem legen die amerikanischen Studio-Herren immer wieder herausragende e ..."
"There are times when Raul Ruiz's maddening and mesmerizing film resembles a direct-to-video erotic thriller in which rampant clichés collide in scenes surreal in their straight-faced silliness. And there are moments when the fractured narrative and stylistic shards create a sophisticated study in alienation and disconnection. These elements often coexist in the same scenes. Ruiz is a master craftsman whose cinematic intelligence is put ..."
"There are times when Raul Ruiz's maddening and mesmerizing film resembles a direct-to-video erotic thriller in which rampant clichés collide in scenes surreal in their straight-faced silliness. And there are moments when the fractured narrative and stylistic shards create a sophisticated study in alienation and disconnection. These elements often coexist in the same scenes. Ruiz is a master craftsman whose cinematic intelligence is put ..."
"There are times when Raul Ruiz's maddening and mesmerizing film resembles a direct-to-video erotic thriller in which rampant clichés collide in scenes surreal in their straight-faced silliness. And there are moments when the fractured narrative and stylistic shards create a sophisticated study in alienation and disconnection. These elements often coexist in the same scenes. Ruiz is a master craftsman whose cinematic intelligence is put ..."
"John Landis was the perfect director for Innocent Blood, a horror-comedy hybrid that does for French vampires in Pittsburgh what Landis's An American Werewolf in London did for hungry lycanthropes in Picadilly Square. Anne Parillaud, the sexy star of La Femme Nikita, is perfectly cast as a beguiling vampire who must feed regularly on human blood, and when she spots a local Mafia kingpin (Robert Loggia), she says to herself, "I think I'l ..."
"French director Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) broke the commercial taboo against female-driven action movies with this seminal, seductively slick film about a violent street punk (Anne Parillaud) trained to become a smooth, stylish assassin. Though it amounts, in the end, to little more than disposable pop, the film has a cohesiveness in style and tone--akin to the early James Bond films--that gives it a sense of integrity. Parillaud i ..."
"The story of a dwarf born to a young French woman just after WW II, who lives his life by the stars, falls in love and becomes a literary celebrity when he publishes an "astronomical autobiography.""
"The serpentine plotline of Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita begins its 117-minute slither when punkish, psychotic, and drug-ridden Nikita (Anne Parillaud) fires her gun into a cop's face following the stick-up of a drug store, and is promptly imprisoned. She is thrown into a dank cell, then injected with a substance and told it is a lethal toxin. Instead of dying, however, she comes to in an all-white interrogation room, where French intell ..."
"Thème classique de la science-fiction, la robotisation de l'être humain, ici par manipulation psychologique, a inspiré à Luc Besson un film qui vise à une certaine ambition philosophique en posant le problème de l'intégrité individuelle face au totalitarisme. Malgré quelques faiblesses de détail et une évidente maladresse dans le registre strictement psychologique, Nikita possède une force expressive qui rend son propos convaincant ..."
"The visual sophistication of director Vincent Ward (The Navigator, What Dreams May Come) pulls us through this often awkward chronicle of the lifelong star-crossed passion shared by a Canadian Eskimo boy (Jason Scott Lee, from Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story) and the mixed-race girl (La Femme Nikita's Anne Parillaud) he meets and falls in love with as a child. (A glowering Patrick Bergin is the third corner of the triangle.) Flamboyant s ..."
Les Abusés by Parillaud, Anne Softcover, Published 2021 by Robert Laffont ISBN-13: 978-2-221-25303-8, ISBN: 2-221-25303-5