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Along with Luc Besson and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Beineix was one of the major figures of the ‘cinéma du look’ – the stylish 1980s refit of French cinema that saw the country move beyond the New Wave.
French film director who achieved international fame with the arthouse classics Diva and Betty Blue
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Peering into obscure corners of Paris, Jean-Jacques Beineix emerged with an assembly of unlikely, even impossible, characters to populate his "Diva" (1981), a thriller that is more about how it looks than what happens in it. Here is an exhilarating film made for no better purpose than to surprise and fascinate. I remember it at Toronto 1981, where it arrived unknown and unsung and won, as I recall, the festival's first audience award. Now released in a restored print, it glistens in its original magnificence.