Subway

A man pursued over documents he has stolen disappears into the tunnels and service corridors of the Paris metro. A community already lives down there. The film does not take its plot seriously; the narrative is interested in building the underground as a world with its own rules, and the crime thread is only a pretext. The idea of forming a band in the metro becomes its real subject. It is Luc Besson's second film. Isabelle Adjani and Christopher Lambert lead. It won Cesar awards and was taken at the time as an example of a new visual movement. Who it's for: those who like the French visual cinema of the nineteen-eighties. Who it's not for: viewers wanting a coherent crime narrative; the film keeps abandoning it.