Luc Besson has been working to rebuild his career after dealing with scandals, and the monster-budgeted box office wipeout of 2017’s “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” severely limited his professional opportunities. He’s been moving into smaller films to help with his rehabilitation, but offerings such as 2019’s “Anna” failed to attract much attention, and 2023’s “Dogman” was mostly ignored. Besson goes even more modest with his latest, turning to the power of a smartphone to photograph “June and John,” trying to launch a tale of free-spirited lovers with as little technical polish as possible, aiming to keep a sense of spontaneity to the endeavor, mirroring the energy of the lead characters. It’s a U.S. tale of attraction and impulsiveness for the French director (who also scripts), but his sense of storytelling is seriously out of whack. “June and John” hopes to be cute and meaningful, but the whole thing is bad poetry as the helmer strands his actors with impossibly lousy material. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com