Le dernier combat (1983)
IMDb meta-data is a runtime of 1h 29m, rated 6.7 by 6643 cinematizens.
Genre: Post apocalypse.
DNA: France.
Verdict: A quiet version of Mad Max.
Tagline: Sshh.
Man roams around a destroyed world of office buildings, defiled apartments, crashed American cars, pursued by four or five other men. Nary a word is spoken, nor is there a tendentious narration so de rigour in Hollywood to explain and blame the situation on the audience. It just is.
He flees on his Leonardo da Vinci homemade airplane to other, equally desolate parts.
Meanwhile we meet the Doctor hold up in his clinic fending off a lone Barbarian at the gate. Man and Doctor unite against Barbarian, but, well, he is a Barbarian and subdues them, but Man escapes.
Yes, in a bow to Hollywood conventions there is a woman to fight over, in fact, two of them, but they have but five minutes of plot time. Most of the time director Luc Besson, before he surrendered to Hollywood, shows that a little can be a lot. (A long way from Valerian where a lot is a little.)
It makes no sense but moves at brisk pace, and hangs together, almost. Only two words are spoken. Correction, only one word is spoken but it is spoken twice. ‘Bonjour.’
I watched this from my private collection via Plex in a hotel room in Canowindra (look it up).