The Red Siren ( French : La sirène rouge ) is a 2002 French crime thriller film based upon the novel by same name by Maurice G. Dantec . The film was directed by Olivier Megaton from a script by Olivier Megaton, Alain Berliner , Norman Spinrad , and Robert Conrath.
6-471: Olivier Megaton (born Olivier Fontana ; 6 August 1965) is a French director, writer, and editor who directed the films The Red Siren , Transporter 3 , Colombiana , Taken 2 and Taken 3 . Fontana was born in Paris , 20 years to the day after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima , and his choice of the artistic name Megaton was influenced by this. He grew up in a Paris banlieue , and after qualifying for
12-435: A detective named Anita ( Asia Argento ) that her mother Eva ( Frances Barber ) is a dangerous killer. Eva is also a very powerful and wealthy leader of a vast crime syndicate. She discovers that her daughter met with the police and tries to stop her. Unbeknownst at first to both Anita and Eva, Alice escapes from France and leaves for Portugal to reunite with her supposedly dead father. Eva's henchmen chase after her. Alice meets
18-404: A diploma in psychology, was active as a graphic artist and also adept in graffiti art. After meeting music video director Jean-Baptiste Mondino , he started working in films. Fontana first started making shorts and video clips before finally directing feature films. He is of Italian descent. Fontana has directed Exit , The Red Siren , Transporter 3 , Taken 2 and Taken 3 . He
24-403: A mercenary while escaping, Hugo ( Jean-Marc Barr ), who then joins Alice as her protector on her journey to find her father. Anita travels after her, as well. After Eva's henchmen close in, Eva reappears to "reclaim" her daughter. This article related to a French film of the 2000s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a crime thriller film
30-419: Was chosen to direct Mathilda , the sequel to Léon , but expressed the opinion that the film was unlikely to be made. He also served as a second unit director for the film Hitman . His trademark technique in film directing involves intentionally disorienting camerawork and editing. Aside from filmmaking, Fontana is also a published author after his novel, entitled Le Facteur humain ("The Human Factor"),
36-411: Was released in 1998. In 2021, Fontana returned to film production to release a Netflix documentary entitled "Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan", the documentary received criticism shortly after release for its stigmatism regarding dissociative identity disorder. Director Second unit director The Red Siren The film tells the story of Alice (Alexandra Negrão) who confesses to
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