Subway

Luc Besson, 1985 (98 mins, Cert. 15)

Christopher Lambert and Isabelle Adjani star in this Luc Besson story centered around the Paris Metro.
(Playhouse publicity)

A slightly surreal journey into the underground under the underground. Christopher Lambert falls in with the folks who live like rats in the cracks and forgotten places of the Paris Metro and prey on the travellers but largely only come out after hours to claim the deserted platforms of the system. Wonderfully evocative images and a thriller sub-plot combine to make a mesmerising and disturbingly believable picture of how an underclass operates and relates to conventional society.
(Steve Fagg)

Seen: Monday, 9th March, 1998 (Harlow Playhouse)