Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Lionsgate)
Obsessed opera fan Frederic Andrei secretly tapes a concert of his favorite diva. On his way home, a woman being chased hides a different tape on his moped. It turns out to have incriminating evidence about a corrupt police officer. Andrei is hunted down by the police, thugs hired by the corrupt officer and some people who want his bootleg opera recording. He gets help from a friend who lives in a huge studio loft where he practices zen and puts together a jigsaw puzzle while his Asian girlfriend roller skates around the room. It's an interesting mix of hypnotic camera work, idiosyncratic character study and straight-ahead crime drama. Wilhelmenia Fernandez threatens to ruin it with her amateurish performance and terrible French, though her singing is just fine.
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