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Might have imagined, that is, if he had lived in the age of Stalin. For the year is 1936, and the central figure of Nikita Mikhalkov's marvelous film, which won this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Film, is an old Bolshevik at terrible risk, Sergei Kotov (played by the director himself). Lost in contentment with his radiant young wife and adorable child, he does not see that, far from protecting him, his stature as a beloved hero of the revolution is precisely what makes him a threat to paranoid tyranny. He knows their visitor, Dimitri, works...
...Serguei Kotov, the central figure of Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov's film, which won this year's Best Foreign Film Oscar, is an aging hero of the Bolshevik revolution now living quietly on a country dacha with his beautiful young wife and adoring child. Into an almost unbearably beautiful day suffused with golden sun comes Dimitri, former lover of Kotov's wife and now member of the secret police. What Kotov doesn't learn until it's too late is that Dimitri has come not to steal his wife, but to conduct him to prison, humiliation and death. The genius...
...recession but the start of a spiral back down into depression. In between, inflation and unemployment rates might be low (unbelievably so by today's standards) but so was the growth rate, at least by comparison with the Soviet Union. Maybe the U.S.S.R. really would "bury" us economically-a Nikita Khrushchev boast that was taken more seriously by Americans than it ever was by Khrushchev...
Besson has a curious fondness for lost girls making their way in a brutal world. In La Femme Nikita his heroine was a drugged-out, teenage murderess- drifter rescued from the guillotine by an intelligence agency and given a new life as an assassin. In The Professional, set in New York City, his subject is a 12-year-old named Mathilda (Natalie Portman), the only member of her family to survive a criminal massacre. She turns to a neighbor for succor. Leon (Jean Reno) is an inarticulate fellow. He drinks milk by the gallon, tenderly cares for a plant that...
...movie is a replay of Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, a bloody study of macho alienation and Method posturing. Jean-Hugues Anglade, the French star of Betty Blue, La Femme Nikita and the forthcoming Queen Margot, bites off huge chunks of scenery as the nutty gang leader; his performance is a great geyser of bad acting...