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Subway (film)
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| Directed by | Luc Besson |
| Produced by | Luc Besson François Ruggieri |
| Written by | Luc Besson Marc Perrier |
| Starring | Isabelle Adjani Christopher Lambert Michel Galabru Jean-Hugues Anglade |
| Music by | Éric Serra |
| Cinematography | Carlo Varini |
| Distributed by | Island Pictures US Gaumont France |
| Release date(s) | 1985 |
| Running time | 104 min |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
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Subway is a 1985 French film directed by Luc Besson, starring Isabelle Adjani and Christopher Lambert and is part of the Cinema du look movement. The film was a reflection of the marginalised Génération Mitterrand of the 1980s.[1] Themes of the film include young people without family connections being monitored and policed by older people, the rejection of capitalist society [2] and 'high' culture being usurped by Pop Culture. [3]
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Having stolen some compromising documents, a man known as Fred (Lambert) takes refuge in the fascinating underground world of the Paris Métro. While the henchmen of the gangster owner of the documents chase him, Fred develops a relation with his young trophy wife Héléna (Adjani) who is getting increasingly bored with her golden cage life. A number of fascinating characters pass by in the storyline, as Fred decides to form a band and perform in the subway. Among the band members are the Drummer (played by Jean Reno) and the Bass Player (Éric Serra), who have since accompanied Besson in the making of most of his movies. The ending is left open as to what actually happens in the growing love relation between Fred and Helena - and to whether he lives or dies. At a performance with the newly formed band (where Fred has paid off the actual performers at an announced concert with money from a robbery and put his band in their place) he is shot by the henchmen of Héléna's husband before she can reach him to warn him of the approaching danger. The film ends with her kneeling beside him, Fred lying on his back looking content and singing along to the band playing in the background.
- Isabelle Adjani - Héléna
- Christopher Lambert - Fred
- Richard Bohringer - Le fleuriste/The Florist
- Michel Galabru - Commissaire Gesbert/Commissioner Gesberg
- Jean-Hugues Anglade - Le roller/The Roller
- Jean Bouise - Le chef de station/The Station Master
- Jean-Pierre Bacri - Insp. Batman
- Jean-Claude Lecas - Robin
- Pierre-Ange Le Pogam - Jean
- Jean Reno - The Drummer
- Éric Serra - Enrico (bassist)
Subway was the third most popular French film in France in 1986, after Trois Hommes et un Couffin and Les Specialistes. It attracted 2,920,588 cinemagoers.[4]
Christophe Lambert won a Cesar Award for best actor. [5]
The scene where Fred hold up a strip of fluorescent tube is a reference to the light sabers of Star Wars. [6]
Fred's demise is based on the ending of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless [7]
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