At age 18, Luke became interested in cinema and has worked as a worker on the set.
A year later, Besson decided to go to Hollywood, but getting there is serious work, soon returned to France and was called up for military service.
Three years later, to repay a debt homeland, Luc Besson returned to the cinema to stay. Luke began to climb with directing music videos, and soon he worked as an assistant director in feature films.
In 1981 he was released the debut work of director Luc - short fiction film "penultimate". Because of limited finances in the film was made in black and white and silent, but it appears the actor Jean Reno, who is called "mascot" and "alter-ego" Luc Besson.
Filmed in 1983, already a feature film "The Last Stand" brought fame Besson, the picture has won prizes at the Fantastic Film Festival in Avoriaz and won several other awards.
And away we go! Every 2-3 years the director Besson's new film was born. Viewers loved Bessonovskiy recognizable style: a combination of dynamics and melodrama.
Apogee of his directorial career reached, perhaps, with the release of the film "Nikita" in 1990. The painting was a huge box office success. After this picture of Besson began to speak as a director with a worldwide reputation.
Known and loved in Russia began his film "Leon" (1994) with the participation of the same young Jean Reno and Natalie Portman. The film was nominated for the French, national, film awards "Cesar" in several categories, but received none. Frustrated by the director could not help but burst into tears and emotions directly at the ceremony.
Offended by Europe after such a blow "in the stomach," Luke went to conquer Hollywood. In 1997 came the publication of his painting "The Fifth Element" with Bruce Willis and wife Luke supermodel Milla Jovovich in the lead roles. Box office of the film amounted to 266 million. Dollars.
But the next film "Joan of Arc" (1999) failed at the box office and caused a lot of criticism.
Luc Besson is certainly a talented director, but in addition, he is very successful producer and screenwriter, in some movies and busy as an actor, but as such it is unlikely to remember the audience. Apex activities Besson as a writer was the picture of Pierre Morel, "13 th district. Ultimatum" of the prisoner, who helped police solve crimes. Brussels cinemas refused to show the film because of its cruelty, but the Parisian theaters have collected more than 500 thousand spectators.
In 2010 saw the release of a new film by Luc Besson mystical "The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec".
Personal life director is closely linked to his work. His wives were Anne Parillaud, who plays Nikita Maive Le Besco, who played the role of a Diva "Fifth Element", Milla Jovovich has already mentioned that he was shot in the "Fifth Element" and then in "Joan of Arc".
Currently, his wife Virginie Silla is Luke, co-producer of some of the films Besson. Father Luc Besson became five times, and each time a girl is born.
Still, the most famous children of the master - it's his movie. "My films - my children - says Luc Besson. - I'm proud of everyone, and for anyone of them I am not ashamed. It gives me inner peace."