Shown: February 8, 2026 at 6pm
Director : Jean-Jacques Beineix
Country : France
Release Date : 1981
Duration : 113 mins
Language : French
Subtitles : Yes
NOMINATED : FRENCH ENTRY FOR BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM AT 1982 OSCARS
A young, French, opera-loving mail courier, Jules, becomes inadvertently entangled in murder, when a young woman fleeing two mob hit-men drops an incriminating cassette into his mailbag just before she is murdered. Jules has just recently recorded American opera star Cynthia Hawkins at her latest concert, something of a coup as Hawkins refuses to make recordings of any kind. Soon the unwitting Jules finds himself being pursued by Taiwanese bootleggers and a thuggish gang of drug dealers who will do anything to get their hands on the cassettes.
” ‘Diva’ hasn’t dated a moment, stylistically or topically, for the movie is, in many ways, a sublimely entertaining debate on the legality and morality of trying to capture the artistic moment in a bottle.” (David Lamble – Bay Area Reporter)