Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: when Luc Besson mixes Lucy and Nikita, it looks like this!
Five years after the success of Lucy (5,187,049 admissions at the national box office), Luc Besson decided to strike hard with an action film with a thriller background, with a five-star cast (as is often the case).
Want another TV tip for tonight? We recommend this suspense film, one of the best by Alfred Hitchcock and James Stewart, rated 4 out of 5!
Released in cinemas in 2019, Anna tells the story of a twenty-four-year-old young woman, who seems to have a real hidden side. Is she a simple doll seller on the Moscow market? A top model parading in Paris? A killer who is causing trouble in Milan? A corrupt cop? A double agent? Or simply a formidable chess player? You will have to wait until the end of the game to find out who Anna really is.
To play this very mysterious young blonde on screen, Luc Besson did not choose Scarlett Johansson or Anne Parillaud, but a Russian model and actress: Sasha Luss. In addition to having seduced the greatest couturiers, she also won the heart of Léon's dad since she already played in Valérian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
In the casting, we find actors well known to the general public, such as Helen Mirren (who is none other than the narrator of Barbie), Luke Evans (Fast and Furious), Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer), or even Lera Abova ( One Piece).
-Luc Besson reconnects with Nikita
If you follow the career of Luc Bessonyou will probably notice the similarities that exist between Anna and two other of his films: Lucy and Nikita. Just like in these two thrillers, it is about a strong and attractive woman (some will even go so far as to say “cliché of the badass woman”) propelled into the violent world of confidential affairs.
From a scorned and desperate woman, Anna transforms into a killer and torturer. Once again, the top model becomes a secret agent and undertakes tough missions to find freedom. This gives rise to scenes that take your breath away (we think of the sequences in which Sasha Luss attacks Russians in three-piece suits).
In short, a real action entertainment which meets the specifications, but without reaching the heights, as proven by the low rating given by the press: 2.1 out of 5. Fortunately, the reviews are more flattering.
Among them, we can read: “The great return of Luc Besson, which surpasses the own codes of his first cinematographic works”, “Really good Besson”, “This new film by Luc Besson is just superb”or even “Excellent film, in which Besson reconnects with his vein Nikita“. And you, are you seduced?
Tonight on TF1 at 9:10 p.m.
