Save the day. Impress at the fashion show too. When do you think of when you imagine a spy movie? A wooing women as he sips on martinis? attempting increasingly outrageous stunts? Men in overcoats exchanging secret packages at park benches? Regardless of how you envision the genre, odds are a man is at the center of the action, though maybe he’ll encounter a femme fatale who ties into the plot.
But five years ago, one movie explored the possibility of the femme fatale becoming the protagonist of her own story as she navigated twisted loyalties, took on bad guys, and outsmarted everyone in a thriller expertly crafted by an iconic action filmmaker. , directed by T and ’s Luc Besson, follows Anna (Sasha Luss) as she’s discovered in a rural market and instantly catapulted to fame as a supermodel, in a classic rags-to-riches story. But the rug is soon pulled out from under us; Anna isn’t just a down-on-her-luck girl from the tundra who gets a good break, but a deadly assassin and sleeper agent whose rise to fame was engineered by the KGB.
As Anna advances as both a model and a spy, she has to balance her very different jobs as she tries to secure the freedom she’s always wanted. Besson, who also wrote the script, bounces freely between timeframes and perspectives, making the viewer question the true intention of these spies as much as the characters do. secret weapon is Cillian Murphy and his American accent as CIA agent Leonard Miller, who makes a deal with Anna only to.
