Stars: Richard Bohringer, Dominique Pinon, Wilhelmenia Fernandez

Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix

Summary: A young Parisian postal worker secretly records the object of his obsession - a beautiful opera singer. He is pursued by a pair of psychotic crooks.

Jean-Jacques Beineix's debut film is a stylish, hilarious, and audacious thriller that had many critics comparing Beineix's innovative technique to that of Orson Welles at the time of the film's release. DIVA stars Frederic Andrei as Jules, a young Parisian messenger who is obsessed with a beautiful American opera singer who refuses to make recording of her performances. Determined to capture her voice on tape, Jules manages to make an excellent recording of her which is promptly stolen from him and replaced with a tape that incriminates a French politician, causing Jules to become of a pair of French hitmen. Featuring a quirky sense of humor, enormous visual style, wonderful music, and an unforgettable subway motorcycle chase scene, DIVA is among the best and most influential films of the 1980s.

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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 with explosions of disposable pop kitsch. Yet he also tells a fairly compelling story in the process, one that only seems to get more interesting the closer one gets to the end. An unusual experience, Diva should be seen also for the influence it had on the look and feel of movies and music videos in the 1980s. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Scene selection
Subtitles:	English
Year:	1981
Release Date:	January 1, 2007
Runtime:	113 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	O P T D 0706
Keywords:	Off, General, Diva, Drama, Schedule
Genre:	Drama