Two tapes, two Parisian mob killers, one corrupt policeman, an opera fan, a teenage thief, and the coolest philosopher ever filmed. All these characters twist their way through an intricate and stylish French language thriller.
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| Wilhelmenia Fernandez | ... | Cynthia Hawkins (as Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez) | |
| Frédéric Andréi | ... | Jules | |
| Richard Bohringer | ... | Gorodish | |
| Thuy An Luu | ... | Alba | |
| Jacques Fabbri | ... | Commissaire Jean Saporta | |
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Chantal Deruaz | ... | Nadia |
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Anny Romand | ... | Paula |
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Roland Bertin | ... | Simon Weinstadt, l'imprésario |
| Gérard Darmon | ... | L' Antillais | |
| Dominique Pinon | ... | Le curé | |
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Jean-Jacques Moreau | ... | Krantz |
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Patrick Floersheim | ... | Zatopek |
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Raymond Aquilon | ... | Abdullah, le rasta |
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Eugène Berthier | ||
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Gérard Chaillou | ... | Mortier |
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A young opera-loving mailman, Jules, becomes inadvertently entangled in murder, when a young woman fleeing two mob hit men drops an incriminating cassette into his mailbag. Jules has just recently recorded opera star Cynthia Hawkins' latest concert, something of a coup as Hawkins refuses to make recordings of any kind. Soon Jules finds himself the target of the hit men, who want the voice recording, and also of another couple of ominous and mysterious agents. Written by garykmcd
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FranceRelease Date:
23 April 1982 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$5,672, 4 November 2007, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$108,372, 30 March 2008Company Credits
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Composed by Charles Gounod
Performed by Wilhelmenia Fernandez (as Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez)
© Copyright by Galaxie Musique 1981
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During the metro chase, close-ups of Jules shows the collar of a white tee-shirt underneath his buttoned-up shirt. However, in both previous and following scenes, he is without the tee-shirt. See more »Crazy Credits
The music continues for a minute and five seconds after the credits end. See more »Alternate Versions
Lion's Gate released a DVD (under the "Meridien Collection" banner) with 6' of deleted shots (all extensions of existing scenes) that were intentionally cut in the original by the director before the initial release, with those deleted shots not as bonus material on the DVD but actually edited back into the film, and advertised on the DVD as a "restored version". The resultant timing was 123'. This is not an official version, but an unauthorized re-editing by a DVD company. The correct timing of the film is 117'25". See more »Soundtracks
Ave MariaComposed by Charles Gounod
Performed by Wilhelmenia Fernandez (as Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez)
© Copyright by Galaxie Musique 1981
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Diva is a movie that seems just as stunning and unique to me today as it did when I first saw it 20 years ago. One of those movies that you will remember forever.
On the surface, it's an exercise in pure style, combining exciting, "hip" visuals with great music (opera as well as some great atmospheric incidental music). But there are hundreds of movies like that. What makes Diva so memorable to me is the way it combines this stylish cinematic eye candy with a suspenseful plot, good acting, a touch of romance and sex, and even a smattering of philosophy (as the title character explains her reasons for not allowing her voice to be recorded, not to mention the immortal bread-buttering scene).
It sounds like a recipe for a boring, highly stylized "European" movie, but this is a film where the excitement never flags for a minute. One of the true gems of 80s cinema. As a friend said "If you wanted to be hip in the 80s, you had to have seen 'Liquid Sky', 'Repo Man' and 'Diva'". But even today, you should see it just because it's a great movie.