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Subway (film)
French film
Subway is a French thriller film directed by Luc Besson and starring Isabelle Adjani and Christopher Lambert. The film is classified as part of the cinéma du look movement.
Plot
The story opens with Fred speeding through the streets of Paris in his car, being chased by several gangsters, all dressed in black tie; it is later explained that he has stolen documents from the gangsters’ boss at his wife Héléna's birthday party.
When the gangsters close in on him, Fred jumps down on to a metro track and escapes into the labyrinthine world of the Paris Métro. Over the next several days he half-heartedly attempts to blackmail Héléna for the documents, although he is clearly less interested in the money than in winning her affection.
Meanwhile, the gangsters and the police continue searching for Fred, as well as his new friend "The Skater" (who has been living off minor theft and avoiding the police for many months).
Héléna struggles with her feelings about Fred and her dissatisfaction as her (somewhat older) husband's arm candy.
Subway de luc besson biography Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen some documents. Queen Margot This content is for registered users only. Main article: Luc Besson filmography.Gradually, Fred meets musicians and persuades them to join a band he claims to be forming (although he himself cannot sing). The full cast of characters is large; most of their lives and personalities are developed only implicitly from their context and mannerisms.
Cast
Production
Subway was filmed partially on location in the Paris Métro and Paris RER, and partially on sets that were designed by Alexandre Trauner.[5] The opening car chase scene is said to pay homage to the film The French Connection, and the film's ending is based loosely on the ending of the film Breathless.
Soundtrack
Éric Serra's score and other musical pieces from the soundtrack, such as Fred's band's song, "It's Only Mystery" (also written by Serra), were released on vinyl and cassette in The soundtrack sold over , copies in France.
The soundtrack was released on CD in [8]
Reception
Subway was the third-most popular French film in France in , after Trois Hommes et un Couffin and Les Specialistes. It attracted 2,, cinemagoers.[2][9] The film grossed $, at the box office in the United States.[2][10]
The film holds an 67% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on nine reviews.[11]Janet Maslin of The New York Times praised the film's "highly energetic visual style" and "the sheer fun of staging domestic scenes, musical interludes and roller-skate chases in the underground" but added that "[the] characters and situations [are] so thin that they might as well be afterthoughts".[12]
According to film reviewer John Cribbs, "[Much] of Subway is meditative but largely plotless, like a dream being described to you by someone who's still trying to figure out the symbolism of it [themself] The film and its characters are actually anti-movement: it opens with three philosophical quotes about existence: Socrates, "To be is to do," Sartre, "To do is to be," and Sinatra, "Do be do be do." The message is clear: [director] Besson thinks it's a crazy world up there on the surface what with folks insisting on constantly "doing" things.
To him the subway is someplace no square bozo would ever think about not moving swiftly through without a thought, therefore it's the ideal environment for outsiders who seek an eden of in-action; a stasis salvation ..
Ever anderson Archived from the original on 8 December Production year France Inter in French. Despite being pursued by the henchmen, Fred finds the time to flirt with Helena, blow a safe, rob a train, evade the hapless Metro police and start a rock bandThe theme in Subway is about freedom from social responsibility."[13]
Accolades
Subway was nominated for the Foreign Language Film award at the 40th British Academy Film Awards.[14] The film was nominated for 13 César Awards in , winning 3: Best Actor (Christopher Lambert), Best Production Design (Alexander Trauner) and Best Sound.[15]
Home media
The film was released on DVD in the United States in November The DVD presents the film in anamorphic widescreen and contains both an English-dubbed version as well as the original French version with English subtitles.
Aaron Beierle of DVD Talk gave the DVD 3 out of 5 stars for video quality, and 2½ stars for audio quality.[16] Jason Bovberg of DVD Talk gave the film 3 stars for both video and audio quality. Both reviewers gave the film only a ½ star for its extra features, noting only cast and crew biographies plus trailers for three of Besson's other films were included on the disc.[17] As well as having no special features, standard versions of the DVD only contain the English-dubbed version; this has significant dialogue differences from the French original, though both Lambert and Adjani performed their own English.
Both the UK[18] and French versions[19] of the Blu-ray were released in September Both only contained the film in its original French audio, though with optional English subtitles. awarded both 3½ out of 5 stars for both audio and video quality.