1981 · thriller · romance · crime
Diva (1981)
Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix1h 57m1981
Jules, a young Parisian postman, secretly records a concert performance given by the opera singer Cynthia Hawkins, whom he idolises. The following day, Jules runs into a woman who is being pursued by armed thugs. Before she is killed, the woman slips an audio cassette into his mail bag...
Our read: Diva (1981) (1981) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive thriller · romance · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, kinetic, measured thriller / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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- intense
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