Anna

Director: Luc Besson Luc Besson

Overview

By using her undeniable beauty and charm as a young woman, Anna Poliativas lets loose her strength and skills in order to become one of the best government spies and assassins. Starring Sasha Luss as Anna, Hellen Mirren, Anna Boos, Cillian Murphy and Luke Evans. Written and Directed by Luc Besson.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/24/2019
UPC:	0031398307112
Original Release:	2019
Rating:	R
Source:	LIONSGATE - 600000-AEC LGE
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:59:00
Sales rank:	31,433

Special Features

Dressing a Doll: costumes of Anna; Anatomy of a Scene: Restaurant fight; Unnesting a Russian Doll: making Anna; Constructing the car chase

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Luke Evans	Alex Tchenkov
Cillian Murphy	Lenny Miller
Helen Mirren	Olga
Sasha Luss	Anna,Anna's Mother
Lera Abova	Maud
Alexander Petrov	Piotr
Nikita Pavlenko	Vlad
Anna Krippa	Nika
Alexey Maslodudov	Jimmy
Eric Godon	Vassiliev
Ivan Franek	Mossan
Jean-Baptiste Puech	Samy
Adrian Can	John McKee
Alison Wheeler	Dorothee
Andrew Howard	Oleg
Cansu Tosun	Spy
Pauline Hoarau	Nato's Model 1
Eric Lampaert	Nato
Reginal Kudiwu	Agent Blake
Jess Liaudin	Olga's Technician
Colin Bates	CIA Agent
Victoria Cyr	CIA Agent
William Sciortino	KGB Agent
Genevieve O'Neal	CIA Agent
Manuel Sinor	Agent Pitts
Christophe Tek	The Stylist
Mikhail Safronov	Anna's Father
James Joint	Chauffeur
Andre Ivanov	KGB Agent
Jan-Oliver Schroeder	Frederick
Julia Munrow	Vassiliev's Secretary
Avant Strangel	CIA Agent
Sergey Bachurskiy	Moscow Cabbie
Emmanuel Menard	Diplomat
Ernest Gromov	KGB Officer
François Girard	Cascadeur
Grace Hancock	Neta
Anastasia Kulakova	NATO's Model 8
Lauren deGraaf	Inge
Sophia Dunn-Walker	Fashion Week Guest
Zac Andianas	The Stylist
Travis Kerschen	Kirill
Greta Varlese	Renata
Éric Serra	Composer

Technical Credits

Luc Besson

Marc Shmuger	Producer,Executive Producer
Luc Besson	Director,Producer,Screenwriter
Swan Pham	Casting
Loic Gourbe	Sound Editor
Jason Cloth	Executive Producer
Stéphane Bucher	Sound Mixer,Sound/Sound Designer
Guillaume Bouchateau	Sound/Sound Designer
Didier Lozahic	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Deadly yet delightful, Anna is an outrageous and instant blockbuster that clearly rises above the competition and here's why: director and writer Luc Besson spins beautiful, lively camp into the tired assassin trope with refreshing self-awareness and humor. Outside of movies starring Angelina Jolie, quality female assassins are lacking in film, especially ones who are the lead. But without question, Sasha Luss is here to take the reins in her captivating portrayal of the titular role. Her turn as an international supermodel moonlighting as a KGB agent - or is it the other way around? - is highly entertaining because of the plot's many twists and turns. The time jumps ultimately keep the audience hooked. Much like a fish on a line, there is a struggle at first to accept the disorientating scenarios that ricochet from years in the past to months in the future and back again. One moment, Anna is dressed to the nines and shooting a man in the face in a luxury apartment; the next moment, she is dirty and unkempt, being emotionally and physically abused by a boyfriend. But these time jumps also invite the audience to solve the riddle that is Anna's life. In this pursuit, there isn't just one big twist, but several. The frequent shocks of these sudden developments keep the film alive for those watching. Plot twists are part and parcel of Anna's intrigue, but the campiness of the melodrama and characters is even more fun. It's readily apparent that the filmmakers and actors are not taking things too seriously. This isn't Ethan Hunt or Jason Bourne with the stiff upper lips and monochrome color palettes. Instead, we get Helen Mirren in fur coats and coke bottles, lighting her cigarette with a hand grenade lighter, as she coolly regales Anna about the time she was caught in a bear trap during a training mission in Siberia. We get Anna undercover as a supermodel in Paris, as she flits from haute couture fashion shoots to lethal missions. It might sound tedious to some, but the film imbues every moment with a little humor, a little sex, or the irony of both. Despite the overall exhilaration of the story, Anna's motivations for wanting to join and then leave the KGB are dreary and nonsensical. She wants to be free from her abusive boyfriend, so she joins the KGB, is intimate with and kills a bunch of men, only to still be unsatisfied and lacking the freedom she desires. It's a messy, slightly bland characterization of an otherwise badass woman. Luckily, it gets buried under the impact of each wicked twist. This film is the exact kind of kick starter needed in this genre. It is wildly, unabashedly entertaining - sexy, and full of shootouts. The always impressive Mirren coupled with Besson's direction help make this movie a remarkable one. Its name: Anna.