Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #105647 in DVD
• Released on: 2001-06-12
• Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
• Original language: French
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 118 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Jean-Jacques Beineix (Betty Blue) made a catchy debut as a director with this slick, defiantly superficial 1982 movie about a young mail carrier who illegally records a performance by an opera singer, then gets the tape mixed up with evidence that could incriminate gangsters. Wearing flashy commercialism like a badge, Beineix fills the screen with explosions of disposable pop kitsch. Yet he also tells a fairly compelling story in the process, one that only seems to get more interesting the closer one gets to the end. An unusual experience, Diva should be seen also for the influence it had on the look and feel of movies and music videos in the 1980s. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

Customer Reviews

Wonderful Paris
Let's face it - any film set in Paris is bound to be automatcially improved by that very fact. It's the most cinematic city in the world. However, this film could have been set in Leeds and I'd still give it five stars. Jean-Jacques Beineix's career has not been as successful as he probably would have liked but this film shows just what he is capable of. It features some excellent acting and some fantastic cinematography. The shots of Paris in the early morning are simply brilliant, as are many other scenes. The story is told at just the right pace and everything fits together very neatly. Overall, a wondeful film which should not be missed.

diva
Diva is a fantastic film.
Merges typically French quality and commercial reality. It's fairy tale-like and quite naturalistic... pays attention to the detail and is quite unconventional...
simply brilliant.
a must see !!!
trust me.

invention
This is a great example of a young European director trying to make a Hollywood movie (a cop movie/thriller) but instead producing something entirely different. It's a mish-mash of styles and references that don't always work and yet it still manages to be inventive, intriguing, stylish, quirky and very watchable. Can you imagine a Hollywood movie where the young protagonist is a postman obssessed with an opera singer from whom he steals a robe and picks up a prostitute to wear it..? It's not what we expect from French films.... it's not deep, and it doesn't explore social, psychological or sexual concerns. It's plot is convoluted and some of the links are tenuous but if you surrender to it, you will definitely find it rewarding.