Synopsis: Life in a post-apocalyptic world
Director: Luc Besson
Actors: Jean Reno, Maurice Lamy, Pierre Jolivet
Date: 1984
Date: 1984
How viewed: Bought DVD
Rating: 2/5
David Meyer says:
Weird, funny, hypnotic and irresistible. The first hint of Besson's unique merging of American mayhem and French art film.
I say:
In Besson's film, It's not much fun after the apocalypse - the wind blows, skyscrapers are half submerged in sand, there's no food or water (though it does rain fish!), the survivors have lost the power of speech, everyone's out to kill you, and the few remaining women are kept locked up as possessions. Plus it's a near silent film in back and white... This is story of one man, alone after some apocalyptic event - living in an office block, scavenging parts to build a plane to escape across the vast desert that presumably now covers the city. He escapes, he crashes, he's chased, he finds a friendly doctor living in a derelict hospital, they continue to be hunted until he is alone again, eventually flying back where he came from (why?). It's all very slow and depressing, occasionally coming across like a silent comedy (though with few laughs). Not sure what we're supposed to take from it - I guess that in extreme circumstances man reverts to an animal. Great, thanks for that!
I say:
In Besson's film, It's not much fun after the apocalypse - the wind blows, skyscrapers are half submerged in sand, there's no food or water (though it does rain fish!), the survivors have lost the power of speech, everyone's out to kill you, and the few remaining women are kept locked up as possessions. Plus it's a near silent film in back and white... This is story of one man, alone after some apocalyptic event - living in an office block, scavenging parts to build a plane to escape across the vast desert that presumably now covers the city. He escapes, he crashes, he's chased, he finds a friendly doctor living in a derelict hospital, they continue to be hunted until he is alone again, eventually flying back where he came from (why?). It's all very slow and depressing, occasionally coming across like a silent comedy (though with few laughs). Not sure what we're supposed to take from it - I guess that in extreme circumstances man reverts to an animal. Great, thanks for that!
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