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Critics reviews. Jules, an opera enthusiast, is particularly enchanted by American diva Cynthia Hawkins, who refuses to be recorded. So enamored with her, he makes an illegal tape at her concert. But when the tape is confused with one implicating a police chief with the mob, he must use all his ingenuity to survive.
Opens Friday, April 29 at Film Forumhttps://filmforum.org/film/jean-jacques-beineixs-diva(1982, Jean-Jacques Beineix) A single misstep, and reedy postman Fré...
Available on DVD through www.umbrellaent.com.au Buy it here: http://www.umbrellaent.com.au/p-2811-diva.aspxAcclaimed French filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix (...
A young mail carrier, Jules (Frederic Andrei), becomes entranced with the voice of American diva Cynthia Hawkins (Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez). She doesn't believe in being recorded, but Jules ...
16 Jul 2008 · It's hard to believe that Diva, the ultra-stylish, unimaginably influential, pop-chic feature debut of director Jean-Jacques Beineix, was a theatrical flop when it was first unleashed on unsuspecting French audiences in 1982.French critics dismissed the film, a colorful crime fantasy about an opera-mad mail carrier who lands in the center of an international criminal conspiracy, as shallow and ...
Synopsis. Jules, a young Parisian postman, secretly records a concert performance given by the opera singer Cynthia Hawkins, whom he idolises. The following day, Jules runs into a woman who is being pursued by armed thugs. Before she is killed, the woman slips an audio cassette into his mail bag...
10 Jan 2008 · Peering into obscure corners of Paris, Jean-Jacques Beineix emerged with an assembly of unlikely, even impossible, characters to populate his "Diva" (1981), a thriller that is more about how it looks than what happens in it. Here is an exhilarating film made for no better purpose than to surprise and fascinate. I remember it at Toronto 1981, where it arrived unknown and unsung and won, as I ...
