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| Directed by | Jean-Jacques Beineix |
| Produced by | Claudie Ossard Irène Silberman Serge Silberman |
| Written by | Jean-Jacques Beineix Jean Van Hamme Based on the novel by Delacorta |
| Starring | Frédéric Andréi Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez Richard Bohringer |
| Music by | Vladimir Cosma |
| Cinematography | Philippe Rousselot |
| Editing by | Monique Prim Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) | March 11, 1981 |
| Running time | 117 min (France) 123 min (United States) |
| Country | France |
| Language | French English |
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Diva is a 1981 film directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, adapted from a novel of the same name by Daniel Odier (under the pseudonym Delacorta). Events January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. Jean-Jacques Beineix (born October 8, 1946) is a French Film director. Diva ( 1979) by Daniel Odier (writing under the Pseudonym Delacorta) is a crime novel set in Paris. Daniel Odier (born in 1945 in Geneva Switzerland) is an author of fiction It is one of the first French films to let go of the realist, harsh mood of 1970s French cinema and return to a colourful, melodic style, called "Cinema du look". This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Realism in the Visual arts and Literature is the depiction of subjects as they appear in Everyday life, without embellishment or interpretation The cinema of France comprises the art of Film making within the nation of France or by French filmmakers abroad Cinéma du look was a French film movement of the 1980s It referred to films that had a slick visual style and a focus on young alienated characters The film made a muted debut in France in 1981, but had success in the United States the next year. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The film became a cult classic and was internationally acclaimed. A cult film is a Film that has acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group of fans.
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Plot
Jules, a young postman, is obsessed by Cynthia Hawkins, a beautiful and celebrated opera singer who has never consented to have her performances recorded. Opera is an art form in which Singers and Musicians perform a Dramatic work (called an opera which combines a text (called a Libretto He attends her performance, secretly and illegally records it, and steals a gown from her dressing room.
Unknowingly, Jules also comes into possession of another important tape: the testimony of a prostitute, exposing Saporta, a high-ranking policeman, as the boss of various rackets. The prostitute drops the recording in the bag of the postman's moped moments before she is murdered.
In danger from Saporta's enforcers as well as from Taiwanese gangsters seeking the Hawkins tape, Jules seeks refuge with his new friends, the mysterious bohemian Serge Gorodish and his young muse Alba (the central figures of a series of novels, including the one upon which the screenplay was based). The term bohemian, of French origin was first used in the English language in the nineteenth century to describe the untraditional lifestyles of marginalized and impoverished Artists Gorodish acts as a deus ex machina to manipulate Jules's enemies into destroying each other. A deus ex machina ( lat. ˈdeːus eks ˈmaːkʰina literally "god from a/the machine" is an improbable
Meanwhile a relationship between Jules and Cynthia develops. Jules returns Hawkins' dress out of guilt after stealing it. Although she is initially angry, she then becomes amused and somewhat moved that she has such a fan. The two have breakfast together and Jules is given the privilege of hearing her practice her singing. Their relationship becomes somewhat strained however, when Hawkins hears that a perfect bootleg copy of her performance was made and sent to Taiwan, which insists that she either sign to make recordings of her performances or they will sell copies of the illegal tape. Jules believes that Gorodish and Alba sold the tape to the hitmen after him. He later learns that they still have the tape and that the call was a fake. At the end of the movie however, he plays the bootleg tape for Cynthia. She expresses slight nervousness over hearing it as she "never heard [herself] sing". Jules responds by holding her and the two dance together to the music.
Soundtrack
Highlights of the soundtrack include the aria Ebben? Ne andrò lontana from Alfredo Catalani's opera La Wally, and a pastiche of Erik Satie's Gnossiennes composed by Vladimir Cosma. WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section --> Alfredo Catalani ( 19 June 1854 &ndash 7 August 1893 La Wally is a four-act Opera by Alfredo Catalani, composed on a Libretto by Luigi Illica, and first performed at La Scala Alfred Éric Leslie Satie ( Honfleur, 17 May 1866 – Paris, 1 July 1925) was a French Composer and " Gnossienne " is the name given to several piano pieces by French composer Erik Satie in the late 19th century Vladimir Cosma (born April 13 1940) is a Composer, conductor and Violinist, born in Bucharest, Romania.
Cast
- Frédéric Andréi: Jules
- Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez: Cynthia Hawkins
- Roland Bertin: Weinstadt
- Richard Bohringer: Gorodish
- Gérard Darmon: L' Antillais (The Spic)
- Chantal Deruaz: Nadia
- Jacques Fabbri: Jean Saporta
- Patrick Floersheim: Zatopek
- Thuy An Luu: Alba
- Dominique Pinon: Le Curé
Awards
- César Awards:
- Best Debut: Jean-Jacques Beineix
- Music: Vladimir Cosma
- Cinematography: Philippe Rousselot
- Sound: Jean-Pierre Ruh
External links
- Diva at the Internet Movie Database
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