On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, stand-up comedian Bec Hill chooses to discuss Luc Besson’s loony 1990s sci-fi The Fifth Element…
On the latest episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, our guest is stand-up comic Bec Hill. She chose to talk about The Fifth Element, in which Luc Besson mixes kaleidoscopic colours, ground-breaking visual effects, costumes by Gaultier and Bruce Willis before he stopped caring in order to provide something genuinely unhinged. It’s a mythology-heavy epic that benefits from some sprightly fight scenes and some joyous weirdness.
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Originally published March 6, 2019. Updated August 29, 2019.
