Diva (1981)
Country: FR
Technical: col 117m
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
Cast: Frederic Andrei, Roland Bertin, Richard Bohringer
Synopsis:
A postman with a taste in exotic women engineers a pirate recording of his favourite, black opera star and finds himself coincidentally involved with Japanese potential buyers and crooks who are after a recording of a very different kind.
Review:
Very much of its time: an exercise in form which uses genre ingredients with no particular concern to make sense provided that it displays plenty of style and looks (and sounds) luxurious. A surprise hit for a continental film, it actually played on the commercial circuit in the UK. It remains a diverting oddity and was certainly hugely influential on 'a certain tendency in French cinema', which was in the doldrums at the time. Bohringer's husky cool soon became trademark.
Country: FR
Technical: col 117m
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
Cast: Frederic Andrei, Roland Bertin, Richard Bohringer
Synopsis:
A postman with a taste in exotic women engineers a pirate recording of his favourite, black opera star and finds himself coincidentally involved with Japanese potential buyers and crooks who are after a recording of a very different kind.
Review:
Very much of its time: an exercise in form which uses genre ingredients with no particular concern to make sense provided that it displays plenty of style and looks (and sounds) luxurious. A surprise hit for a continental film, it actually played on the commercial circuit in the UK. It remains a diverting oddity and was certainly hugely influential on 'a certain tendency in French cinema', which was in the doldrums at the time. Bohringer's husky cool soon became trademark.
Country: FR
Technical: col 117m
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
Cast: Frederic Andrei, Roland Bertin, Richard Bohringer
Synopsis:
A postman with a taste in exotic women engineers a pirate recording of his favourite, black opera star and finds himself coincidentally involved with Japanese potential buyers and crooks who are after a recording of a very different kind.
Review:
Very much of its time: an exercise in form which uses genre ingredients with no particular concern to make sense provided that it displays plenty of style and looks (and sounds) luxurious. A surprise hit for a continental film, it actually played on the commercial circuit in the UK. It remains a diverting oddity and was certainly hugely influential on 'a certain tendency in French cinema', which was in the doldrums at the time. Bohringer's husky cool soon became trademark.