Diva is a 1981 film directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, adapted from the novel Diva by Daniel Odier . 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 cinema du look. The film made a successful debut in France in 1981 with 2,281,569 admissions, and had success in the US the next year grossing $2,678,103. The film became a cult classic and was internationally acclaimed. Jules , a young postman, is obsessed with Cynthia Hawkins , a beautiful and celebrated opera singer who has never consented to... have her performances recorded. 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.
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| Release date: | March 11, 1981 |
| Directed by: | Jean-Jacques Beineix |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 117 Minutes |
| Producer: | Claudie Ossard, Irène Silberman, Serge Silberman |
| Music by: | Vladimir Cosma |
| Cinematography: | Philippe Rousselot |
| Screenplay by: | Delacorta, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Jean Van Hamme |
| Genre: | Thriller, Action |