obscure movie pick of the week: Diva

Diva, Jean-Jacques Beineix's debut film from 1981, regularly seems to come up in conversation between me and a friend of mine, and always with the fondest of memories. We both saw it together in a film and lit. course back in college. Thing is, despite its genius and over-all entertain-ability, we always seem to remember and refer to the most obscure and minimal details from the film. For example, my friend (Ralph's his name) always brings up a particularly interesting apartment-rollerskating Asian teenager and said apartment with its lack of walls and furniture (an ideal place to crash in the idealistic eyes of young college students such as ourselves). The film is just so modern and different the story and its meaning (upon first viewing at least) takes a backseat to Beineix's daring and mesmerizing stylistic choices. Regardless of just how weird Diva is, be sure its definitely a riveting thriller with style to spare and layers upon layers that will provide hours of interesting conversation afterwards. For Beineix, it was quite the hard act to follow. As his IMDB page proves, he never quite reached the heights of his debut and retreated into assistant director obscurity.

Even more sad, I haven't seen Diva in quite a while...