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Define and analyse the Cinema du Look using Nikita as your main source for illustrations and examples.  

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Define and analyse the Cinema du Look using Nikita as your main source for illustrations and examples. Cinema du look refers to a movement and a style of filmmaking, which first became popular in the early 1980s and continued to be successful right into the 90s with Luc Besson's Leon in 1994. Cinema du look's three main directors are said probably Luc Besson, Jean-Jacques Beineix and Léos Carax and the style of Cinema du look was said to have originated with Jean-Jacques Beineix's film Diva in 1980. The numerous popular successes of films like Besson's Subway and Grand Bleu and Carax's 37,2 dégres le matin have meant the style of cinema du look has always been very successful amongst the young people of France. French critics on the other hand have always been very critical of Cinema du look and in particular of the work of Luc Besson and accuse him of...

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