

Diva
Her voice was his calling.
Jules, a young Parisian postman, secretly records a concert performance given by the opera singer Cynthia Hawkins, whom he idolises. The following day, Jules runs into a woman who is being pursued by armed thugs. Before she is killed, the woman slips an audio cassette into his mail bag...
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6.7/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $2.9M
- Language
- English
- paris, france
- mistake in person
- subway
- diva
- postman
- moped
- singer
- police corruption
- recording
- opera singer
- prostitution ring
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Behind the camera
Director
Music
Produced in
France
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR16 Apr 1982
United KingdomGB
- PhysicalDVD15 Jan 2007
FranceFR
- Theatrical1211 Mar 1981
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1225 Mar 1983
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical625 Nov 1982
- Physical6DVD25 Aug 2001
- TV6Nederland 34 Aug 2003
SwedenSE
- Theatrical1511 Mar 1981
Frequently asked questions
Diva was released on 11 March 1981.
Audience reviews
4- T9/10
talisencrw
8/16/2016
This was outstanding. Opera could very much be a metaphor for film to me, and the great way that opera dominates the life of addict Jules here could easily apply to me in my approach to film, and ANY remarkable actress of today. For example, if I could travel back in time, I would easily have felt this way about Garbo, who is my favourite actress ever... Probably the best thing Luc Besson ever laid his hands on…
- J7/10
JPV852
12/5/2020
Despite the ridiculous premise, namely the idea of Taiwanese gangster trying to get a hold of a bootleg recording of an opera singer (to blackmail her to signing a contract with them), the movie is better than I thought it would be going in. There are a couple big downsides that keeps me from giving it a higher rating. One is that this opera singer (Cynthia) finds solace with a young postman (Jules) who is pretty …
- F6/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
3/14/2024
**A very experimental film in terms of visuals and aesthetics, but one that disappoints us due to the poor conception of the characters and the lack of harmonization of the plot.** This film harmoniously brings together two arts that I greatly value: cinema, of course, and opera, which for me is the most complete, challenging and versatile stage art that exists. Although the film is not about opera and is far from…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
8/9/2025
That fact that I could listen to the “Ebben? Ne andrò lontana” aria from “La Wally” all day helps gets this off to a cracking start, and then we have a young fan in the form of moped postie “Jules” (Frédéric Andréi) - a lad with a distinctly Jean-Pierre Aumont look to him, who manages to make a sneaky recording. Why sneaky? Well that’s because the singer, “Cynthia Hawkins” (Wilhelmina Fernandez) hates recordings and …
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