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White to move and mate in two #583 -- The original of the species... [1]

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Date: 2024-11-03  

...is nearly always better than the American remake. La Femme Nikita was released in 1991 in French with English subtitles. Only 2 years later it was remade as Point of No Return (international title: The Assassin) starring Bridget Fonda. Meh. The original is one of my fav Luc Besson Films, possibly only surpassed by his eclectic science fiction epic, The Fifth Element. Here is an excerpt from Roger Ebert's review of La Femme Nikita:

Here is a version of the "Pygmalion" legend for our own violent times – the story of a young woman who is transformed from a killer in the streets to a government assassin.

"La Femme Nikita" is a smart, hard-edged, psycho-romantic thriller by the young French director Luc Besson ("Subway"), who follows a condemned woman as she exchanges one doom for another.

The woman is played by Anne Parillaud, who projects a feral hostility in the opening scenes, as she joins a crowd of drug-addled friends in holding up a drugstore. Cornered by the police, she takes advantage of a cop's momentary lapse of attention to grab his gun and shoot him point-blank in the face.

She has no hope of escape; she is simply so anti-social and strung-out that she doesn't care if she kills or dies.

The courts sentence her to death, but then a strange thing happens. Her death is faked, and she finds herself inside a secret government program that takes people with no hope and remakes them into programmed assassins.

She is given a new identity, new values, new skills. It doesn't happen overnight. Her controller, a tough spymaster, has to tame her like a circus animal; she is so filled with anger and violence that she will bite and kick him rather than listen gratefully now that he has spared her life.

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