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DIVA<\/h2>\nDIVA<\/h2>\n| 1982 – 117′ – Classic – Crime \/ Thriller \/ Romance – Director Jean-Jacques Beineix (BETTY BLUE) launched the Cin\u00e9ma du look movement with this stylish cult thriller that remains as innovative today as when it premiered in 1981 in France. Jules (Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Andr\u00e9i), a young postal carrier, illegally tapes a concert of a reclusive opera singer (American soprano Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez). Jules\u2019 attempts to woo the diva are interrupted when Taiwanese bootleggers come after the recording. His problems worsen when a prostitute slips another tape, one that incriminates a police chief, into his bag. Now, Jules must escape the police chief, the cop\u2019s henchmen and the bootleggers to keep both precious tapes safe\u2014and to stay alive. Featuring a celebrated chase through the Paris Metro and an early appearance by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Am\u00e9lie) favorite Dominique Pinon, Diva earned C\u00e9sar Awards for Beineix, Vladimir Cosma\u2019s sumptuous music and Philippe Rousselot\u2019s eye-popping cinematography.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n DIVA | 1982 – 117′ – Classic – Crime \/ Thriller \/ Romance – Written and\u00a0Directed by\u00a0Jean-Jacques Beineix. Starring: Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Andrei, Jacques Fabbri, Richard Bohringer, Dominique Pinon. Winner 4 C\u00e9sar Awards: Best First Picture, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Sound. In French with English subtitles. A Kino Lorber release.| Trailer Director […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,33,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classic","category-crime","category-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7146"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18089,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions\/18089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWritten and\u00a0Directed by\u00a0Jean-Jacques Beineix.
\nStarring: Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Andrei, Jacques Fabbri, Richard Bohringer, Dominique Pinon.
\nWinner 4 C\u00e9sar Awards: Best First Picture, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Sound.
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA Kino Lorber release.|<\/span><\/p>\nTrailer<\/a><\/h4>\n
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