House of Besson - 258 - Léon: The Professional

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We continue our Luc Besson retrospective with Léon: The Professional (1994), a film that turned a hitman into a pop-culture archetype and remains one of the most debated thrillers of the 1990s. Host John Mills is joined by Darren Moser to dig into Besson’s precise visual control, Éric Serra’s melancholic score, Thierry Arbogast’s stylized cinematography, and the film’s complicated emotional core.

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