In 1981, a young Parisian director kickstarted a style of French cinema as synonymous with the decade to come as the Nouvelle Vague was with the 1960s, or poetic realism with the 1930s. The cinema du look was a term coined by critic Raphaël Bassan to describe the work of three young filmmakers – Léos Carax, Luc Besson and Jean-Jacques Beineix – overwhelmingly concerned with matters of style. And Diva was where it all began, Beineix’s noirish story of anhellip;

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