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Subway
Directed byLuc Besson
Produced byLuc Besson
François Ruggieri
Written byLuc Besson
Marc Perrier
StarringIsabelle Adjani
Christopher Lambert
Michel Galabru
Jean-Hugues Anglade
Music byÉric Serra
CinematographyCarlo Varini
Distributed byIsland Pictures US
Gaumont France
Release date(s)1985
Running time104 min
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
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Subway is a 1985 French film directed by Luc Besson, starring Isabelle Adjani and Christopher Lambert and is part of the Cinema du look movement. The film was a reflection of the marginalised Génération Mitterrand of the 1980s.[1] Themes of the film include young people without family connections being monitored and policed by older people, the rejection of capitalist society [2] and 'high' culture being usurped by Pop Culture. [3]

Synopsis

Having stolen some compromising documents, a man known as Fred (Lambert) takes refuge in the fascinating underground world of the Paris Métro. While the henchmen of the gangster owner of the documents chase him, Fred develops a relation with his young trophy wife Héléna (Adjani) who is getting increasingly bored with her golden cage life. A number of fascinating characters pass by in the storyline, as Fred decides to form a band and perform in the subway. Among the band members are the Drummer (played by Jean Reno) and the Bass Player (Éric Serra), who have since accompanied Besson in the making of most of his movies. The ending is left open as to what actually happens in the growing love relation between Fred and Helena - and to whether he lives or dies. At a performance with the newly formed band (where Fred has paid off the actual performers at an announced concert with money from a robbery and put his band in their place) he is shot by the henchmen of Héléna's husband before she can reach him to warn him of the approaching danger. The film ends with her kneeling beside him, Fred lying on his back looking content and singing along to the band playing in the background.

Cast

Reception

Subway was the third most popular French film in France in 1986, after Trois Hommes et un Couffin and Les Specialistes. It attracted 2,920,588 cinemagoers.[4]

Christophe Lambert won a Cesar Award for best actor. [5]

Film references

The scene where Fred hold up a strip of fluorescent tube is a reference to the light sabers of Star Wars. [6]

Fred's demise is based on the ending of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless [7]

Notes

1. ^ Luc Besson - Susan Hayward
2. ^ Luc Besson - Susan Hayward
3. ^ Contemporary French Cinema - Guy Austin
4. ^ French Cinema - Powrie & Reader
5. ^ French Cinema - Powrie & Reader
6. ^ Contemporary French Cinema - Guy Austin
7. ^ Contemporary French Cinema - Guy Austin

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Films directed by Luc Besson
The Last Battle Subway The Big Blue Nikita Atlantis Lon The Fifth Element Angel-A Arthur and the Minimoys (Invisibles)
Luc Besson

Born March 18 1959 (1959--) (age 48)
Paris, France

Spouse(s) Anne Parillaud
Milla Jovovich (1997-1999)
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Isabelle Adjani

Birth name Isabelle Yasmine Adjani
Born May 27 1955 (1955--) (age 52)
Paris' 17th arrondissement

Awards
Academy Awards
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Christopher Lambert

Birth name Christophe Guy Denis Lambert
Born March 29 1957 (1957--) (age 50)
Great Neck, New York,  United States


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Michel Galabru

Born September 27 1924 (1924--) (age 83)
Safi, Morocco
Died

Michel Galabru
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Jean-Hugues Anglade

Born July 29 1955 (1955--) (age 52)
Thouars, France
Died

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Éric Serra (born on September 9, 1959) is a French composer. He has often worked on the movies of Luc Besson.

Biography

Éric Serra's father Claude was a famous French songwriter in the 1950s and '60s, and, as such, Éric was exposed to music and its production at a young
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Gaumont

Independent and partnership with Sony Pictures for worldwide film production and distribution.
Founded 1895
Headquarters Paris, France

Key people Léon Gaumont
Industry Motion pictures
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Motto
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
Anthem
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French (français, pronounced [fʁɑ̃ˈsɛ]) is a Romance language originally spoken in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Switzerland, and today by about 300 million people around the world as either
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Luc Besson

Born March 18 1959 (1959--) (age 48)
Paris, France

Spouse(s) Anne Parillaud
Milla Jovovich (1997-1999)
Virginie Silla (2004-)


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Isabelle Adjani

Birth name Isabelle Yasmine Adjani
Born May 27 1955 (1955--) (age 52)
Paris' 17th arrondissement

Awards
Academy Awards
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Christopher Lambert

Birth name Christophe Guy Denis Lambert
Born March 29 1957 (1957--) (age 50)
Great Neck, New York,  United States


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Cinéma du look was a French film movement of the 1980s. It referred to films that had a slick visual style [1] and a focus on young, alienated characters that were said to represent the marginalised youth of Francois Mitterrand's France.
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Popular culture (or pop culture) is the widespread cultural elements in any given society that are perpetuated through that society's vernacular language or lingua franca.
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Mtro lines
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Isabelle Adjani

Birth name Isabelle Yasmine Adjani
Born May 27 1955 (1955--) (age 52)
Paris' 17th arrondissement

Awards
Academy Awards
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Christopher Lambert

Birth name Christophe Guy Denis Lambert
Born March 29 1957 (1957--) (age 50)
Great Neck, New York,  United States


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Richard Bohringer (16 January 1941) is a French actor.

He was born in Moulins, Allier. He is the father of actress Romane Bohringer. He has 2 other children : Richard and Lou.

He also is a musician, a writer (and a poet).
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Michel Galabru

Born September 27 1924 (1924--) (age 83)
Safi, Morocco
Died

Michel Galabru
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Jean-Hugues Anglade

Born July 29 1955 (1955--) (age 52)
Thouars, France
Died

Awards
Jean-Hugues Anglade
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Jean Bouise (June 3, 1929 in Le Havre - July 6, 1989 in Lyon) is a French actor. In the 1950s he helped to found Theatre de la Cite, and was a player in the company. He entered films in the 1960s, and played a supporting roles in The Shameless Old Lady, Z,
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Jean-Pierre Bacri (born May 24, 1951, Castiglione, Alger, France (now Bou Ismail, Algeria)) is a French actor and screenwriter who frequently works in collaboration with his wife Agnès Jaoui.

One of his earliest film appearances was Subway.
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Jean Reno

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Birth name Juan Moreno y Herrera Jiménez
Born July 30 1948 (1948--) (age 59)
Casablanca, Morocco
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Éric Serra (born on September 9, 1959) is a French composer. He has often worked on the movies of Luc Besson.

Biography

Éric Serra's father Claude was a famous French songwriter in the 1950s and '60s, and, as such, Éric was exposed to music and its production at a young
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Trois hommes et un couffin (En. Three Men and a Cradle) is a 1985 French film by Coline Serreau upon which the 1987 U.S. remake Three Men and a Baby was based.
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César Award

Awarded for Best in film
Presented by Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema
Country  France
First awarded 1975 The César Award is the national film award of France, first given out in 1975.
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Jean-Luc Godard

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Birth name Jean-Luc Godard
Born November 3 1930 (1930--) (age 78)
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