Jules (Frédéric Andréi), a young postman, is obsessed with a diva, the never-recorded African American opera star Cynthia Hawkins (Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez). After bootlegging one of her haunting arias, Jules befriends a teenage record-store thief and finds sanctuary in a Parisian artist’s loft. A cassette tape mix-up precipitates suspenseful entanglements among the moped-riding youth, the artists, the police, and international gangsters in this stylish, chase-filled pop thriller from the director of Betty Blue. 1982, France, 35mm, in French with English subtitles, 117 min.
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Bio
Jean-Jacques Beineix (1946–2022) was a French film director best known for the films Diva and Betty Blue. He made his feature debut in 1981 with Diva, winning four César awards including Best First Feature. The thriller was one of the most successful French films to play internationally in the 1980s, ushering in a new style of filmmaking that melded auteur and genre elements, fashion-forward style, and bold cinematography. Beineix’s work is regarded as the first in the post–New Wave cinéma du look film movement in France.
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