One of the underrated qualities of many films of the French New Wave is their playfulness. Christophe Honore is one working director who’s unapologetic about his debt to the genre. His New Wave-inspired films are worth watching in their own right. But they also remind us of how gloriously fun those films could be.

There’s some seriousness in his latest, “Beloved.” The beautiful Parisienne Madeleine (Ludivine Sagnier) flees Prague when she discovers her Czech husband is unfaithful and Russian tanks are entering the city. But Honore’s musical drama — clearly inspired by the work of his fellow Frenchman Jacques Demy — is also as beguiling as the women who people it.