Diva (1981 film)

Diva is a 1981 French thriller film directed by JeanJacques Beineix, adapted from the novel Diva by Daniel Odier under the pseudonym Delacorta. It is one of the first French films to let go of the realist mood of 1970s French cinema and return to a colourful, melodic style, later described as cinma du look.

Young postman Jules is obsessed with classical music, and in particular with Cynthia Hawkins, a beautiful and celebrated opera singer who has never allowed a performance of hers to be recorded.Jules attends a recital at the Thtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris, where Hawkins sings the aria Ebben? Ne andr lontana from the opera La Wally. He illicitly makes a highquality bootleg recording of her performance using a Nagra professional taperecorder. Afterwards, he steals the gown she was wearing from her dressing room. ........

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