La Femme Nikita | |
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French | Nikita |
Directed by | Luc Besson |
Written by | Luc Besson |
Produced by | Patrice Ledoux[1] |
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Cinematography | Thierry Arbogast |
Edited by | Olivier Mauffroy[1] |
Music by | Éric Serra |
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Distributed by | Gaumont (France) Penta Distribuzione (Italy) |
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Running time | 117 minutes[2] |
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Language | French |
Budget | 39 million F (€ 5.6 million) |
La Femme Nikita,[a] also called Nikita in France, is a 1990 French-language action thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson. The film stars Anne Parillaud as the title character, a criminal who is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering policemen during an armed pharmacy robbery. Her government handlers fake her death and recruit her as a professional assassin. After intense training, she starts a career as a killer, where she struggles to balance her work with her personal life. She shows talent at this and her career progresses until a mission in an embassy goes awry.
Besson has said that he wrote Nikita with Parillaud, then his romantic partner, in mind.[3] The film was considered a surprise hit.[3] Roger Ebert called it a "smart, hard-edged, psycho-romantic thriller" in his review.[4] Janet Maslin wrote in The New York Times: "La Femme Nikita combines hip violence, punk anomie, lavish settings and an old-fashioned paean to the power of love."[5]
It was remade as Black Cat (1991) in Hong Kong, Point of No Return (1993) in Hollywood, and in Bollywood as Kartoos (1999). Two English-language television series were produced based on the film, La Femme Nikita (1997–2001) and Nikita (2010–2013).
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