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Along similar lines, Besson has said that he made the character to look as androgynous as possible, thereby dredging up another bit of slander leveled against her by her enemies but contradicted by the eyewitness accounts. Based on Besson's comments in "Le Monde" and elsewhere, he was apparently attracted to doing a film about Joan of Arc because he thought she was androgynous like the character played by his (then) lover Milla Jovovich in "The Fifth Element", and so he found them both "sexy". One reviewer, Kathryn Norberg, dryly commented that this seems a pretty thin premise upon which to make a movie about Saint Joan. It could be added that the real St. Joan did not take kindly to people viewing her as a sex object (androgynous or otherwise), based on her response to those few who decided to make lewd comments about her.
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Besson has three daughters with his current wife, Virginie, as well as a daughter from his first marriage. He was ... briefly married (a little over a year) to Milla Jovovich, who starred in several of his movies.
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US audiences won't see ANGEL-A till early 2007, but the Besson oeuvre is very much in evidence in DISTRICT B-13, the movie he produced. A martial arts and guns and jumping off buildings action story called BANLIEU 13 in French, it showcases the sport called "parkour" - that gravity defying bouncing you've seen in Nike ads. The inventor, David Belle, is the star, and it's really entertaining, like a human Roadrunner vs. Wiley Coyote movie, when he does his thing.
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At 18, Besson returned to his birthplace of Paris.[1] There he started to become involved in film, taking on odd jobs to get a feel for the industry. After this, he moved to the United States for three years, but returned to form his own production company which he called "Les Films du Loup". The name was later changed to Les Films du Dauphin.[1] In the early 1980s, Besson met Éric Serra and asked him to compose the score for his first short film, L'Avant dernier.[3]
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Starting with the stylish Subway, Besson has always sought to please people, not penseurs. He followed that glossy 1985 Paris metro drama with The Big Blue, a magical and mystical divers-and-dolphins underwater epic that rapidly became one of the decade's cult movies.
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