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Luc Besson

July 2024

  • Jason Statham and Shu Qi in The Transporter

    Stream team
    The Transporter: Jason Statham’s first star vehicle with the oiliest fight sequence set to screen

    The 2002 film produced by Luc Besson’s company gave Statham his debut franchise – and it’s altogether weirder than its genre trappings might imply

March 2024

  • Caleb Landry Jones as Dogman.

    Dogman review – Luc Besson’s bizarre and macabre tale of canines, crime and drag

    This well-executed film spans the life of a traumatised jewellery thief with a host of dog acolytes

September 2023

  • Woody Allen poses for photographers on the red carpet before the Venice premiere of his film Coup de Chance

    Woody Allen: cheered on stage despite fog of accusation that won’t lift

  • Festival jury members, from left, Laura Poitras, Martin McDonagh, Santiago Mitre, Damien Chazelle, Shu Qi, Jane Campion, Gabriele Mainetti, Saleh Bakri and Mia Hansen-Løve.

    Venice film festival roundup – Adam Driver’s Ferrari roars in to soup up a subpar opening week

August 2023

  • Sit up and take notice … Caleb Landry Jones in Dogman.

    Dogman review – the most ludicrous film you’ll see all year, maybe ever

    Luc Besson’s wacky revenge fantasy follows luckless drag artist Doug and his pack of canine chums that do his criminal bidding – you can’t look away

July 2023

  • High-profile … Bradley Cooper directs and stars as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro, with Carey Mulligan.

    Venice film festival picks starry films despite actors’ strike

    Hollywood films vying for Golden Lion include Bradley Cooper’s Maestro and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, with non-competition films by Wes Anderson and Richard Linklater

June 2023

  • French director Luc Besson

    Luc Besson: France’s top court rejects request to reopen rape case against director

    Decision by France’s top appeals court effectively ends one of the most high-profile cases to emerge in the country’s #MeToo movement

January 2023

  • ‘There’s no stopping Ray’ … Winstone in Nil By Mouth.

    How we made
    Ray Winstone and Gary Oldman on Nil By Mouth: ‘It’s a tough watch’

    ‘It’s a harrowing film, perhaps not one for a Saturday night with a pizza. But it’s stood the test of time – and that’s down to the genius of Gary Oldman’

August 2022

  • Die Hard

    From Die Hard to The Raid: Guardian writers on their favourite action movies

    As Brad Pitt’s new thriller Bullet Train arrives in cinemas, Guardian writers have picked their most exciting action films of all time

June 2022

  • Caleb Landry Jones, 2021

    Caleb Landry Jones: ‘Acting was the only place you were allowed to scream or cry’

    After notable turns in No Country for Old Men and Get Out, the Texan actor was rewarded at Cannes last year for his starring role as a real-life mass shooter in Nitram – a part he was initially reluctant to take on

May 2021

  • Sand Van Roy

    Associated Newspapers pays damages for revealing Sand Van Roy as Luc Besson accuser

    MailOnline published actor’s identity as complainant in rape case against French director

February 2021

  • Lots more Mr Bad Guy … Jean Reno in The Doorman.

    'A villain again, why not?' – is Jean Reno the greatest Eurobaddie ever?

    He made his name as a hitman in Leon. Now he’s back in a kung fu heist caper set in New York. The art-loving, olive oil-making French actor explains why he loves playing ‘le baddie’

August 2019

  • FilmCol Killer Anonymous; John Wick; Polar

    Steve Rose on film
    Killers Anonymous: Has the Hollywood hitman had its day?

    The besuited assassin seems to only exist in films. Perhaps it’s time to put them out of their misery

June 2019

  • Sasha Luss in Anna

    Anna review – Luc Besson's empty assassin thriller shoots blanks

    A vacuous performance from model Sasha Luss sinks the director’s attempt to add a modern spin on his 1990 thriller La Femme Nikita

February 2019

  • Producer Luc Besson called the claims ‘fantasist accusations’.

    Rape inquiry dropped against French film mogul Luc Besson

    Actor Sand Van Roy had accused him of repeatedly raping her

November 2018

  • FILES-FRANCE-JUSTICE-CINEMA<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 17, 2018 French director Luc Besson poses on the red carpet upon arrival for the premiere of the film "Eva" presented in competition during the 68th Berlinale film festival in Berlin. According to judicial sources on May 19, 2018, French film director Luc Besson is accused of rape by an actress. / AFP PHOTO / Stefanie LOOSSTEFANIE LOOS/AFP/Getty Images

    Five more women make sex-offence allegations against Luc Besson

    New accusations bring total to nine women who allege misconduct against French director and producer

July 2018

  • Accused … director Luc Besson.

    Film director Luc Besson faces new allegations of sexual assault

    An anonymous woman has claimed she was assaulted by the French film-maker, who has previously denied accusations against him

May 2018

  • Luc Besson

    Luc Besson under investigation over rape allegation

    French director denies ‘fantasist accusations’ that he drugged and raped woman

January 2018

  • JK Simmons, left, in Renegades.

    Renegades review – ho-hum gung-ho actioner about US special forces

    JK Simmons gives ballast to this Luc Besson-produced film set in Sarajevo in 1995, but it still resembles an egregiously average TV movie

November 2017

  • ‘Jawdropping’: War for the Planet of the Apes.

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    DVD reviews: War for the Planet of the Apes; 47 Metres Down; Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets and more

    Chest-beating apes and bloodthirsty sharks provide familiar thrills while a prison documentary offers a shattering picture of male pain
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