Diva

feature film, 1981

DIRECTED BY: Jean-Jacques Beineix

Diva

CAST:
Wilhelmenia Fernandez (Cynthia Hawkins),
Frédéric Andréi (Jules),
Richard Bohringer (Gorodish),
Thuy An Luu (Alba)

SCRIPT:
Jean-Jacques Beineix,
Jean Van Hamme (prema romanu Daniela Odiera)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Philippe Rousselot

Synopsis:
Jules is a young postman from Paris obsessed with an opera singer whose performance he recorded secretly. The next day he crosses paths with a woman who is being chased by several armed robbers. Before she gets caught the woman manages to slip a tape into Jules’s bag and thus makes him the next target… In 1982, this film won the French film award César as Best Debut Film.

color, 117 min