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DIVA Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix; Screenplay by Jean-Jacques Beineix and Jean Van Hamme...
Diva, a first feature by Jean-Jacques Beineix, 35, has flair to spare. No picturesque French location, from a bombed-out concert hall to a Normandy lighthouse, is too remote. No surface-water, a car hood, sunglasses-is too outré to keep it from reflecting a passerby's face. No character is too quirky to escape shoehorning into the film's delirious narrative. Jules (Frédéric Andrei) is a postal messenger in love with an opera star (Wilhelmenia Fernandez)-a diva so protective of her gift that she refuses to record even her greatest...
...pursue her out of our sight; she runs into the street and collapses, a knife in her back. So far, fine: the sequence has pace, atmosphere, humor, suspense. But the questioning child in every moviegoer wants to know more. Why the bare feet? Why the smile? Why the Metro? Beineix isn't interested in the Why?-only in the What Next...