Infamous as one of the most expensive French films ever produced, and iconic because of its extravagant, ecstatic visual romanticism, Leos Carax’s Les Amants Du Pont-Neuf (Lovers On The Bridge) remains its directors most epic vision of love on the margins of society.
Strung out junkie Nikita (Anne Parillaud) gets involved in a shoot out with police and is believed dead. Secretly however, she has been detained by the government to serve a new purpose: An assassin for the French government. Her devotion to her mission is not only tested by her own past but by the trust of her boyfriend (Jean Hugues Anglade), a checkout clerk at the supermarket who has no idea of Nikita’s true identity.
Loosely based on the life story of famed diver Jacques Mayol, Luc Besson’s fairy tale romance The Big Blue (Le Grande Bleu) is one of the legendary cult films of 80’s European cinema. The relationships revered diver Jacques (Jean Marc Barr) has with his arch rival, Enzo (Jean Reno at his most charismatic) and his insurance adjuster girlfriend, Johana ( Rosanna Arquette) are tested by his nearly mystical obsession with the sea itself. When his arch rival challenges him to a deep sea diving contest where the winner must essentially break a world depth record, Jacques limits begin to know no bounds…
Betty (Beatrice Dalle) lives in romantic seclusion in a stilt house on the beach with barely employed writer Zorg (Jean Hugues Anglade). Betty has dropped into Zorg’s life on a whim and decided not only is he her soulmate but he’s also an artistic genius. Their intense mutual passion is very soon tested by Betty’s inability to ground her own autonomy: Her passionate attraction to Zorg becomes dangerously all consuming, threatening both her sanity and Zorg’s genuine love for her.
Diva is the starting point of “Cinema Du Look.” It’s the film that invented a cinematic movement. Famed opera diva Wilhelmina Higgins refuses to have her voice recorded in any shape or form. When a devoted fan secretly records her lucrative voice, multiple parties in the underground Parisian crime world begin to vie to get their hands on the coveted recording.
