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"Nikita" (1990) is the story of a nineteen-year old junkie, Nikita (Anne Parillaud) who is given a second chance in life through being trained to be - and becoming - a skilled assassin for the State. "Nikita" is a cult classic, directed by Luc Besson (with Thierry Arbogast as director of photography) in his hallmark powerful style. The film was an international hit, which spawned a TV series and a Hollywood remake. Susan Hayward develops here a fresh and provocative way of understanding "Nikita"'s plot structure as a neo-baroque symphony. She goes in depth into key sequences of the film, examines its reception as a popular film by audiences and critics, and looks at "The Assassin", the Hollywood remake of "Nikita". This is a wonderfully exciting book on an underrated film. It also shows that the woman placed at the centre of a film noir can', as Susan Hayward points out, 'for once win - or at least 'get away with it".

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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: Nikita
• Author: Susan Hayward
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• EAN: 9781845114473
• ISBN: 1845114477
• ID: 01356245
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 192 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 141 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. February 2010

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