


“You know what’s interesting?” he continued. I’m so happy to see that at least I have a couple of them, with Leon still there and still around, La Femme Nikita-so it’s good. “There are not so many movies in the past 20 years-you know, there’s lots of sometimes big films that you forget after two years or three years. It’s better than Oscar, box office, everything, is to see that 20 years later, young people are still getting the DVD and watching it and that it’s alive,” Besson said before the screening. I think it’s the best wishes for a director. “It’s such a pleasure to see that is still alive. Cinespia, the company behind the frequent always-sold-out cemetery screenings, partnered with Sony to celebrate the film’s 20th anniversary and its release last week on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray. The Fifth Element-which has earned cult status over the last two decades following a lukewarm reception from critics at the time-was screened this weekend at Los Angeles’s Hollywood Forever Cemetery. “I feel as a director much more agile, you know, in the shots, and I’m more trained 20 years later,” he told GameSpot. But not only does Besson insist they’re unrelated-he’s also not shy about which he prefers. The French filmmaker tackled sci-fi of a sort with 2014’s Lucy, but Valerian is his first full-on spacefaring adventure since The Fifth Element in 1997. With the way Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets has been advertised-”the visionary director of The Fifth Element” writ large in the film’s trailers-Luc Besson fans will be forgiven for assuming the two movies will be similar.
