Visually, this is a stunning piece of cinema – and a great debut for film director Jean-Jacques
Beineix. The photography is so fast, energetic and just plain classy that it leaps
off the screen and grabs you by... [More...]
After Jean-Jacques Beineix made such a stunning directoral debut with his stylish post-modern
thriller Diva, it was inevitable
then his next film would be pilloried if it failed to maintain the same high standards... [More...]
After the comparative failure of his second film, La Lune dans le caniveau (1983),
French film director Jean-Jacques Beineix managed to redeem himself in the eyes of both
critics and cinema-goers with his third film... [More...]
Time and again, director Jean-Jacques Beineix found it hard to repeat the success of his
first film, Diva
(1981), and although some of his subsequent work has some artistic merit... [More...]