Anna

Anna (2019) is Luc Besson's spy action thriller, free to watch online on iFILM. Moscow, late 1980s: a girl selling matryoshka dolls at a flea market gets recruited — not by a modeling scout, but by the KGB.

Anna Poliatova speaks several languages and lands in Paris posing as a fashion model. The runway is a cover story. Her real assignment is killing targets on orders from the Kremlin. Sasha Luss carries the lead, with Helen Mirren as her steely handler and Luke Evans and Cillian Murphy circling on opposite sides of the intelligence game. Besson keeps rewinding the timeline, so almost every scene turns out to mean something other than what you first saw.

This is Besson back on familiar ground — the fragile-looking assassin he built in Nikita and Léon. The fights run in long takes, the palette stays Cold War cold. Watch Anna (2019) online on iFILM.