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In adapting Daniel Odier’s novel ‘Diva’ to the big screen, Jean-Jacques Beineix set the stylistic tone for a French Cinema movement would later be termed ‘Cinéma du look.’ Luc Besson and Leos Carax are the two other prominent proponents of the ‘80s era French movement that created visually splashy films such as Besson’s ‘Subway.’
Slick.
In ‘Diva’ Frédéric Andréi is Jules, a young opera lover obsessed with the American singer Cynthia Hawkins (Wilhelmenia Fernandez), a diva who refuses to make records or to be recorded at all. The outlier Jules surreptitiously makes a bootleg recording of a recital before stealing one of the diva’s dresses after meeting her for the first time.
Jules is a fetishist as well as a lightning rod for trouble but that doesn’t prevent him from entering into a romantic relationship with his object of desire even as international gangsters and corrupt cops fix him in their sites.
‘Diva’ is a seductive feast for the senses that sticks. There’s no telling how many of its audience members, this film turned into instant opera fans.
Dig it baby.
Rated R. 117 mins.
