LA FEMME NIKITA

James Bond Meets Pygmalion” is how one French critic described this unique modern-day film noir thriller by the audacious young director, Luc Besson (SUBWAY, 10th CIFF 1986; THE BIG BLUE). Nikita is a junkie living on the streets, scavenging for her next fix. In a late night robbery of a drugstore, she ices a cop and is sentenced to life in prison. She gets a second chance, though, when the authorities fake her death and send her to be re-educated as an assassin with the Special Service After three years of training, the once savage, rebellious girl is now a sophisticated, seductive, and lethal woman- a killer of the finest order. She lives under a new identity. But she's still a murderer.