With the 354th Overall pick
The All Or Nuttin team is proud to select in the "
Foreign" category, a French movie written and directed by Luc Besson, starring Anne Parillaud, stylish, moody, gripping psychological thriller,
La Femme Nikita.
Roger Ebert:
"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."