Beineix choreographs the actors and the camera into a stunning and stylish cinematic dance... This is not a musical in the strict sense of the word but it certainly feels like one in the way it moves.
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01/10/08
Diva (1981)
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Reviews Counted:40
Fresh:38
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8/10
Consensus: Beineix combines unique cinematography, an intelligent script, and a brilliant soundtrack to make Diva a stylishly memorable film.
Theatrical Release:Nov 2, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: DIVA is a charming French original that combines intrigue, romance and a delirious soundtrack in a visually stunning and stylish debut from Jean-Jacques Beineix. Frederic Andrei stars as Jules, a... [More]
Starring: Fredric Andrei, Wilhelmenia Wiggins, Richard Bohringer, Thuy An Luu
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
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Reviews for Diva
... Beineix directs with a visual cleverness and a witty playfulness that tells the audience to hang back and have fun.
12/29/07
Jean-Jacques Beniex's bold experiment is worth a place of importance in cinematic history.
03/22/08
As with so many pop moments a quarter-century on, what once looked sexy now smells a little sexist.
02/22/08
Top Critic...frightfully chic-looking...
05/20/03
Top Critic...back upon its original 1981 release, it was a true 'wow,' a filmic equivalent of the post-punk new wave music scene that was current.
02/23/08
Here is a director taking audacious chances, doing wild and unpredictable things with his camera and actors, just to celebrate moviemaking.
10/23/04
Top CriticThis is style as a force of nature.
11/03/07
Top CriticHad Wile E. Coyote chased Jean-Luc Godard, the result might have been Diva.
01/11/08
An elaborate, subtitled exercise in blowing hot air.
01/18/08
It's a beautifully layered work that's much more than a showcase for Beineix's talent.
09/13/06
I still loved every minute of it.
12/07/07
Top Critic--- a drama/thriller that is also quite funny ---this is the first film in which I truly realized the importance of cinematography.
01/14/08
The chase through the Paris Metro tunnels is as fascinating as anything put on celluloid.
01/14/08
Any film with this much stylistic assurance is impossible to fully resist.
10/31/07
Top CriticDiva, as a lifestyle, a fantasy, a model for alienation and solipsism and eccentricity, has gone deep into all of us.
01/24/08
Top CriticDiva remains terrific after all this time. The visuals are beautifully composed; the action scenes ... still work; and the performances are all spot-on... .
12/21/07
Director Jean Jacques-Beineix's pop art pastiche is a glittering mix of artifice and genuine cool with its intricate yet effortless thriller plot enacted by some of the screen's most individual and eccentric characters; its combination of playful sexiness
05/22/08
Half a century later, a glut of über-groovy meta-thrillers has blunted the novelty of Diva, but its gamboling flair is still a kick.
10/31/07
Top CriticWhat makes 'Diva' memorable, is the sheer fun, fun, fun of the whole, with its sly homage to directors, styles and genres.
10/30/07
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