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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.
Runtime: 2 hrs 3 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
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
The most exciting debut in years, it is unified by the extraordinary decor - colour supplement chic meets pop art surrealism - which creates a world of totally fantastic reality situated four-square in contemporary Paris.
Top CriticWith its classic clash of style and content, this is very much a key film in the French 'cinema du look' genre.
Top CriticIncredibly stylish and visually ravishing -- arguably to a fault -- Jean-Jacques Beineixís audacious debut has aged well.
Top CriticA witty, playful intelligent film as enjoyable as it is influential.
Top Critic...frightfully chic-looking...
Top CriticPerhaps the most picturesque film to come out of France in years.
Top CriticIt's a supremely gorgeous and supremely shallow motion picture, but it believes in art with a capital A. And practically nobody does anymore.
Diva remains terrific after all this time. The visuals are beautifully composed; the action scenes ... still work; and the performances are all spot-on... .
It flows between its romance, drama and thriller plots more smoothly than today’s best genre-blenders.
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.
Jean-Jacques Beniex's bold experiment is worth a place of importance in cinematic history.
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Any film with this much stylistic assurance is impossible to fully resist.
This is style as a force of nature.
Had Wile E. Coyote chased Jean-Luc Godard, the result might have been Diva.
An elaborate, subtitled exercise in blowing hot air.
The chase through the Paris Metro tunnels is as fascinating as anything put on celluloid.
Intelligent, gripping and slick French thriller.
What makes 'Diva' memorable, is the sheer fun, fun, fun of the whole, with its sly homage to directors, styles and genres.
One of the most exciting feature debuts, Beineix's film is a rare work, generic yet personal, arty and commercial, an exquisitely shot and edited picture that reminds us why we fell in love with movies in the first place.
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