Diva (region 1 DVD)

Jean-Jacques Beineix (Betty Blue) made a catchy debut as a director with this slick, defiantly superficial 1982 movie about a young mail carrier who illegally records a performance by an opera singer, then gets the tape mixed up with evidence that could incriminate gangsters. Wearing flashy commercialism like a badge, Beineix fills the screen eith explosions of disposible pop kitsch. Yet he also tells a compelling story in the process, one that seems to get more interesting the closer one gets to the end.