The director of Diva and Betty Blue was often labelled all flash and nothing else but his finest work showed far much more
He became both famed and mocked for that colossal 1986 hit which launched the smouldering career of its star Beatrice Dalle: Betty Blue, a steamy drama in which an aspiring writer embarks on a passionate, destructive affair with Dalle’s impetuous siren, Betty. It was nominated for best foreign film at the Oscars, the Globes and the Baftas and got nine César nominations.
Beineix single-handedly made this stunningly dramatic aria famous among non-opera fans like a smash hit single from an otherwise little-known album. Undoubtedly, Diva inspired the 1987 portmanteau film Aria, in which directors including Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Derek Jarman, Julien Temple and Nicolas Roeg each created a short piece to the accompaniment of a famous aria.
But, last year at Cannes, I thought of The Moon in the Gutter as the festivalgoers were going wild for Leos Carax’s film Annette, his indulgent, madly ambitious musical fantasia composed by Sparks and starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard.
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