Director Jean-Jacques Beineix made his feature debut in style with 1981's Diva. The highly stylised thriller is credited with kicking off France's "Cinema du look" movement of the '80s. Adapted from the 1979 crime novel of the same name by Daniel Odier aka Delacorta, the film stars Frédéric Andréi as the enigmatic postman Jules, opposite real-life opera soprano Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez as the eponymous diva herself.
Diva has been newly restored in 4K and will screen at the BFI Southbank in August prior to a 4K UHD/bluray release from Studiocanal on October 9th.
Check out the new trailer and artwork below.
The official synopsis reads:
The story of Jules (Andréi), an opera-obsessed courier whose bootleg recording of a rare concert by American diva Cynthia Hawkins (Wiggins Fernandez) is believed to be a tape connecting the chief of police with a Parisian vice ring precipitating a frantic search for its whereabouts by two murderous thugs (Dominique Pinon and Gérard Darmon).
