‘Leon’ (The Professional) a French action film about a hitman living a solitary life in New York and happenes to take care of a young girl who parents were killed will be screened at 3pm on Tuesday, October 12 at the Alliance Francaise de Colombo.
Written and directed by French director Luc Besson, the film stars Jean Reno as a mob hitman, Gary Oldman as a psychotic police drug squad detective, and a young Natalie Portman, in her feature film debut, as a young girl who is taken in by the hitman after her family is murdered by corrupt police agents.
On a particular day on his way home, he sees Mathilda Lando (Natalie Portman), a twelve-year-old girl with a black eye and smoking a cigarette, living with her dysfunctional family in an apartment down the hallway. Mathilda’s father (Michael Badalucco) attracts the ire of corrupt DEA agents, who have been paying him to store cocaine in his residence, after they discover that he has been stealing some of the drugs for himself. A cadre of DEA agents storm the building, led by a sharp-suited and drug-addicted Norman “Stan” Stansfield (Gary Oldman), who murders Mathilda’s entire family, missing her only because she was out shopping when they arrived. When she returns with the groceries she was sent to buy and notices the carnage, she calmly continues down the hallway past the open door of her family’s apartment, and receives sanctuary from a reluctant Léon.
In French with English subtitles is suitable for persons of 15 years and over. |
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