Incredibly stylish and visually ravishing -- arguably to a fault -- Jean-Jacques Beineixís audacious debut has aged well.
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10/31/07
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.
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
Reviews for Diva
Top CriticWith its classic clash of style and content, this is very much a key film in the French 'cinema du look' genre.
10/31/07
Top CriticThe 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.
01/26/06
Top CriticA witty, playful intelligent film as enjoyable as it is influential.
04/17/01
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10/18/08
An elaborate, subtitled exercise in blowing hot air.
01/18/08
As with so many pop moments a quarter-century on, what once looked sexy now smells a little sexist.
02/22/08
Perhaps the most picturesque film to come out of France in years.
07/30/03
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.
11/01/07
Diva 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
It flows between its romance, drama and thriller plots more smoothly than today’s best genre-blenders.
10/31/07
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.
01/10/08
Jean-Jacques Beniex's bold experiment is worth a place of importance in cinematic history.
03/22/08
No review available.
10/18/08
Any film with this much stylistic assurance is impossible to fully resist.
10/31/07
This is style as a force of nature.
11/03/07
Had Wile E. Coyote chased Jean-Luc Godard, the result might have been Diva.
01/11/08
The chase through the Paris Metro tunnels is as fascinating as anything put on celluloid.
01/14/08
Intelligent, gripping and slick French thriller.
07/17/07
What 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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