The Last Battle
Le Dernier combat
Luc Besson
Dead, fallen trees, houses in ruin, a cemetery of cars stacked haphazardly among their own scattered remains. The day after the apocalypse, four men have survived: a lone man at the top of a tower buried in sand, a bloodthirsty leader, and old doctor entrenched within his devastated clinic, defending himself from the repeated assaults of the hulking fourth survivor...
With : Pierre Jolivet, Fritz Wepper, Jean Bouise, Jean Réno, Maurice Lamy, Pierre Carrive, Michel Doset, Bernard Have, Jean-Michel Castanie, Petra Muller, Christiane Kruger
Screenplay : Luc Besson, Pierre Jolivet
Image : Carlo Varini
Sound : Jean-Paul Loublier
Music : Eric Serra
Editing : Sophie Schmit
Screenplay : Luc Besson, Pierre Jolivet
Image : Carlo Varini
Sound : Jean-Paul Loublier
Music : Eric Serra
Editing : Sophie Schmit
Production : Les Films du Loup
Distribution: Gaumont
Distribution: Gaumont
Luc Besson made The Last Battle, his first film, when he was 23 years old. "Since the film was shot entirely in natural settings, using black and white seemed the best way to create a timeless and truly fantasy-like atmosphere. We chose to use cinemascope to better hide the shapes in the ruins that risked making them recognisable. The cinemascope frame completely denatures the original locations, in the film totally destroyed. In addition, the frame makes the decor disproportionate in relation to the characters... who are no more than poor survivors, crushed by the fullness of the cataclysm." (L. Besson)