Diva
1982
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| Rialto Pictures | Release Date: April 16, 1982 |
Summary:
Jules (Frédéric Andréi) goes on the run from every conceivable pursuer - from drug dealers and music pirates to the cops - after obtaining a recording of the woman of his dreams, the never-recorded opera star Cynthia Hawkins (Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez).
Genre(s):
Drama, Thriller, Crime, Music
Runtime:
117 min
Delightfully original. [04 Jul 1982, p.220]
It's a mixture of style and chic hanky-panky, but it's genuinely sparkling.
Conspicuously clever and shamelessly glam, Diva contrived a neo-new-wave sensibility with a post-Pop gloss that came to be known as “cinéma du look,” a Franglais label for the micro-movement of super-stylish, unabashedly romantic pictures made throughout the ’80s by a clique of bright young things including Beineix, Luc Besson, and Leos Carax.
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What has aged well in Diva is the grave beauty of that aria and the wry, painterly camera shots - you should see the new print for the colors alone - conceived by Beineix but executed by the great French cinematographer Philippe Rousselot. They're enough to tide us over and maybe convince the kids that hip date movies existed back when their parents and dinosaurs roamed the earth.
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