https://vo.rs/tags/luc-besson/Latest from the Luc Besson desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sat, 26 Oct 2024 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/the-fifth-element-bessons-gorgeous-comic-book-future/<p>There is a specific kind of pleasure <em>The Fifth Element</em> delivers that almost no other blockbuster attempts, which is the pleasure of a film with far too many ideas and no interest in restraint. Luc Besson&rsquo;s 1997 picture arrives loud, gaudy, tonally deranged, stuffed with more invention per minute than films three times its length, and it commits to that excess so completely that the excess becomes the point. This is a comic book that got a ninety-million-dollar budget, at the time the most expensive European film ever made, and spent every franc on making the frame overflow.</p>Sat, 26 Oct 2024 09:00:00 +0000