

Acting
Caleb Landry Jones commits so hard you'll feel embarrassed for yourself.
Direction
Besson returns to his Léon-era obsession with broken children.
Costume
Douglas's drag looks are character development you can see.

Director
Luc Besson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Besson wrote this after his own legal troubles, and it reads as messy personal exorcism—Douglas's courtroom monologue feels like the director addressing his critics directly.
Caleb Landry Jones spent months training with actual attack dogs and learned to sing opera for the role—method acting for a film that half the audience thinks is camp.