Somewhere about halfway through Valerian, Besson’s aesthetics lose their power to overwhelm-and we’re left grappling with his storytelling, which is cluttered, meandering, inert. Besson can still stage a hell of a set piece, keeping track of a vast physical space and an array of small details with the ease and invention of a pro.īut, oof. An early scene in which space cops (of a sort) Valerian ( Dane DeHaan, doing a solid Keanu) and Laureline ( Cara Delevingne, uneven, but effective when she’s on) go to a kind of inter-dimensional bazaar, switching in and out of different planes of existence (sort of) as they pursue a cherished object, is an absolute marvel, clever and kitschy and suspenseful. Eye-popping and in nearly ceaseless motion, Besson’s film has The Fifth Element’s same syncopated rhythm, a similarly whizzing narrative that introduces exposition in a frenetic flurry as it bounces and careens along.
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The resulting adaptation, the new film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (opening July 21), delivers on that promise for maybe its first hour. Perhaps that fanciful French verve, so gleefully abundant in The Fifth Element, would truly live again-meaning, I would be young again. Perhaps the distant future in far-flung reaches of the galaxy is the best home for Besson’s fantastical whims, where a film is not bound by the conventions of credibility or anything else so boring and pedantic and terrestrial.
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So when it was announced that Besson was headed back to space to mount an adaptation of the French sci-fi comic series Valerian and Laureline, I was cautiously optimistic. In the ensuing years, Besson has produced some fun movies-like Taken and Brick Mansions-but as a director, only his silly evolution actioner Lucy has come close to the giddy pleasures of The Fifth Element. My sister and I were equally enthralled by Besson’s strange and glorious vision, a thrilling and unexpectedly moving art-piece whose high-‘90s-ness has somehow preserved it as a timeless classic, rather than quickly turning it into a dated relic. But The Fifth Element-an adventure about a grizzled cop (a perhaps never-better Bruce Willis) and the beautiful deity (a certainly never-better Milla Jovovich) he’s reluctantly sworn to protect-has something for everyone, from bracing gun battles to eerily beautiful musical numbers to whatever kind of gay Southern-fried camp Gary Oldman is doing. As we got older and my sister‘s movie taste began to diverge from mine-I was way more into action and sci-fi than she was-it got harder to compromise on what to rent on any given weekend. One major favorite was The Fifth Element, Luc Besson’s 1997 masterpiece, a sci-fi/action wonderment stuffed full of oddball style and weirdo Euro humor.
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Like any movie-obsessed teenagers, my sister and I had a cherished repertory of films that we watched over and over again, discovering new nuances each time.