Jean Reno

Natalie Portman

Gary Oldman

Danny Aiello

Peter Appel

Michael Badalucco

Ellen Greene

Elizabeth Regen

Carl J. Matusovich

Eric Challier

Willi One Blood

Don Creech

Keith A. Glascoe

Jernard Burks

Matt De Matt

Frank Senger

Stuart Rudin

Lucius Wyatt Cherokee

Maïwenn

Luc Bernard

Joseph Malerba

Adam Busch

Jessie Keosian

George Martin

Alex Dezen

Michael Mundra

Kent Broadhurst

Tommy Hollis

Peter Linari

Betty Miller

Arsène Jiroyan

Geoffrey Bateman

Peter Vizard

David W. Butler

Robert LaSardo

Steve Gonnelo

William James Stiggers Jr.

Sonny Zito

Randy Pearlstein

Jeff McBride

Fred Fischer

Crystal Blake

Cary Wong

Mario Todisco

Samy Naceri

Christophe Gautier

Junior Almeida

David Gregg

Michel Montanary

Hervé Husson

Didier Legros

Marc Andréoni

Gilles Kleber

Jean-Hugues Anglade

Michael Wehrhahn

Luc Besson

Thierry Arbogast

Gerard Drolon

Dan Weil

Sylvie Landra

Magali Guidasci

Todd M. Thaler

Françoise Benoît-Fresco

Patrice Ledoux

Éric Serra

Geneviève Peyralade

Camille Lipmann

Claude Besson

Cecilia Kate Roque

Nick Allder

Al Griswold

Eric McGinty

Neil Corbould

Bernard Grenet

Sylvie Menard

Miguel Ángel Poveda

Peggy Nicholson

Thierry Guilmard

John Garland

Patrice Grisolet

Gigi Williams

Carol Nast

Carolyn Cartwright

Wing Lee

Sylvette Baudrot

Patrick Camboulive

Claude Serra

Gérard Lamps

Bruno Tarrière

François Groult

Peter Bucossi

Pascal Chaumeil

Norman Douglass

Michael Russo

Gino Lucci

Don Picard

Roy Farfel

Frank Ferrara

Manny Siverio

Garry Pastore

Patrick Cauderlier

Gregg Smrz

Michael E. Phillips

Crime

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Léon: The Professional

Gaumont

Les Films du Dauphin

Columbia Pictures

United States of America

France

English

Français

Italiano

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This films stars a 12-year old Natalie Portman as Mathilda, a girl living with her abusive stepfather, a step-sister, mother, and four-year old brother. She doesn’t care for any of these people except her brother. One day, she returns home from getting the groceries to find corrupt DEA agents have killed her entire family. Key amongst those agents is Stansfield, played by Gary Oldman. Seeking refuge in the flat of a neighbour she had befriended earlier, Léon (Jean Reno), she learns that he is a hitman. She makes a deal with him: she will look after the flat by doing the domestic chores if he will teach her how to get revenge on the men who killed her brother.

Strange though the synopsis may be, the relationship between Léon and Mathilda is kept innocent, and the scenes between the two are believable. Mathilda’s sexual awareness is at a nascent stage and her exposure to the sordid side of life with her recently deceased family (her step-father worked for drug-dealers) means she is perhaps not as innocent as most 12-year old girls; however, Léon is unwilling to take advantage of the situation. This means the story can focus on the platonic relationship between the two, the bond that develops between them, and how each affects the other’s life.

Although it may seem a little far-fetched that a young girl would accompany a hitman during his work, Léon ensures that her assistance is required only on fairly routine hits that follow a well-defined pattern. For the more complex hits he leaves her behind.

There is a thread of humour running through the film, but you must bear in mind the film is framed in the world of corruption and greed and all is not sweet and light, and graphic violence is depicted.

Jean Reno is wonderful as the extremely good but placid hitman, whose whole outlook on life is changed by the young Mathilda, played wonderfully by Natalie Portman in her first film. I’ve not read it, but I understand that Eppie has a similar effect on Silas Marner, as described in the book of the same name. I found Gary Oldman’s performance histrionic, the only let-down in the film, albeit not something that spoilt the film as a whole.

Recommended.

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Clip: A Gift From Mathilda

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