Diva

Diva

  • Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
  • Writer: Daniel Odier,Jean-Jacques Beineix,Jean Van Hamme
  • Countries of origin: France
  • Language: French, English, Italian, Latin
  • Release date: April 23, 1982
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.66 : 1
  • Also known as: Діва
  • "Diva" is a romantic thriller directed by Jean Jacques Beineix and starring Frederic Andre and Wilhelmenia Fernandez   .
    The film tells the story of the postman Jules after secretly recording the concert of the singer Cynthia, but the tapes were robbed; at the same time, a cassette exposing the control of the prostitution ring by the senior police officer Zapota accidentally fell on Jules. In his hands, he was also hunted down for this   . The film was released in France on March 11, 1981.

    Details

    • Release date April 23, 1982
    • Filming locations Lighthouse, Gatteville-le-Phare, Manche, France
    • Production companies Les Films Galaxie, Greenwich Film Productions, France 2 (FR2)

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $110,014

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $5,672

    Gross worldwide

    $110,014

    Movie reviews

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    • By Haskell 2022-03-17 08:01:01

      Peeping in the dark

      Maybe from Baudelaire or Sade, French literature and art began to be full of tempting rotten atmosphere. From then on, the eyes that yearn for beauty no longer simply stare at sunset and maple leaves, but more sprinkled on colorful The garbage, the subway, the sewers, the street corners, the flies...
      This movie can be watched in conjunction with "Zoom In", "The Great Conspiracy", or "Rear Window", they are essentially the same.
      When people are alienated, they have the urge to find the...

    • By Elouise 2022-03-17 08:01:01

      opera singer

      The film integrates various styles such as black thrillers and romance films. The photography shows the scene quite peculiarly. There is a mixture of fashion and surrealism. , and led a trend, the film itself also achieved a win-win result at the box office and evaluation. What is unforgettable is that the director adopts a large number of warm tones and beautiful composition, the lens language is extremely rich and delicate, the atmosphere is also gripping, and the use of music draws on...

    • By Wilbert 2022-03-17 08:01:01

      One of my film enlightenment works

      What exactly is the "New Baroque" style? I've never been able to figure it out, and it's probably just a rhetoric that lazy film critics use to sum up the aesthetic style of French cinema that flourished in the early 1980s. In fact, in the early 1980s, there were indeed three directors with unique styles in the French film industry, Carax, Luc Besson and Benex. All three made their blockbuster debuts in the early 1980s almost simultaneously. Karax's "Boy Meets Girl" continues the traditional...

    • By Raven 2022-03-17 08:01:01

      The pioneering work of the author's film in the 1980s

      This film is one of the most famous works of the famous French director Benex, and one of the most famous French films of the 1980s.

      Benex tells a thrilling story in a slightly black tone, but the film has broken away from the genre mode of traditional gangster thrillers and entered a new style of film creation. It can be seen that to Luc. Many later works, headed by Besson's "Metro", were produced under the influence of this film. It can even be said that the status and influence of...

    • By Zoe 2022-03-17 08:01:01

      bewildering mashup

      It's a bit worse than the director's other "Wild Rose of Paris". I think the problem lies in the storyline, the excessive pursuit of freehand brushwork, and the failure to explain the complex relationship between a drug dealer, a pirate, an artist, an opera star, and a postman. A little more complete is the singer and the postman, but many passages deviate from the main line in the middle narrative. The auxiliary line character setting seems to be just to complete the ups and downs of the plot...

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    • By Noemy 2022-03-27 09:01:21

      2016.9.28 Second brush. Beautiful as you like, with lots of details.

    • By Golda 2022-03-27 09:01:21

      In the summer of 2009, Da Ai was a complete mess. . . The mix and match style of black horror, surreal, and neo-Baroque was incorrigible at the time. . . When I went home and checked, it really caused quite a stir in the year, and led a fashion trend, and also achieved a win-win situation at the box office and word of mouth. The music is elegant and popular. If Kung Pao Chicken is a very authentic home-cooked dish, I think it is more like the ancient meat of pineapple, which can be used for...

    • By Zachary 2022-03-27 09:01:21

      The overall feeling is good, but the French-style cottage that chases the gun battle scene is...

    • By Leonor 2022-03-27 09:01:21

      Three and a half. I don't know what postmodernism...

    • By Ines 2022-03-27 09:01:21

      The first movie I watched in film class, sadly, I didn't understand it at all. Sure enough, this kind of movie needs to be...

    Movie plot

    Cynthia (Wilhelmenia Fernandez) is a talented black singer with a golden voice and a world-renowned soprano. She often holds recitals, but she never allows others to record her singing, and refuses to record. The 18-year-old postman Jules (Frederick Andre) loves music, especially the singing of black female singer Cynthia. The meeting was secretly recorded. However, the tape he got in his hand attracted two Asians to snatch it by any...
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    Movie quotes

    • Gorodish: Some get high on airplane glue... detergents... fancy gimmicks. My satori is this: Zen in the art of buttering bread!

    • [At Jules' apartment]

      Alba: Pretty gloomy setting!

      Jules: Think so? A monument to disaster... deluxe style!

    • Jules: Where are we?

      Alba: In a castle.

      Jules: What castle?

      Alba: Where the witch makes poisoned red apples to advertise the toothpaste movie stars use.