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Turner Classic Movies, 10:45 p.m., Saturday, March 23
Luc Besson became world famous with the great thriller La Femme Nikita, in which a teenage junkie (Anne Parillaud) agrees to become an assassin in order to avoid going to jail for murder. She’s not happy at first and it’s not easy.
She is put through the ringer by her handler Bob (Tchéky Karyo) while another trainer (Jeanne Moreau) puts her through charm school. Then she starts killing people. And falling in love.
It’s great fun, and in French. It was poorly remade in the U.S. as Point of No Return, and it is the basis of two mediocre TV series.
