Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
A beautiful and mysterious woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together... but is their meeting purely coincidence?
Luc Besson's black-and-white Paris fairy tale is visually stunning — Thierry Arbogast's cinematography turns the city into a dreamlike monochrome wonder that genuinely earns a top mark. The acting is serviceable with Rie Rasmussen bringing an otherworldly presence. However, the plot is thin and predictable, leaning on familiar angel-rescues-loser tropes without much depth, and the ending resolves too neatly and sentimentally to satisfy. Novelty is moderate — the black-and-white aesthetic and Besson's quirky romantic-fantasy voice give it some distinction, but the underlying premise isn't especially original.