Diva (Beineix, 1981): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 8.40pm
This film, also being screened on August 9th and 29th, is part of the great Moviedrome: Bringing the Cult TV Series to the Big Screen season.
Time Out review:
Marvellous amalgam of sadistic thriller and fairytale romance, drawing on a wild diversity of genres from film noir to Feuillade serial. The deliriously offhand plot, cheekily parodying
Watergates and French Connections, has switched tapes setting a pair of
psychopathic hoods on the trail of a young postal messenger, turning his
obsessive dream - of romance with a beautiful black opera singer whose
performance on stage he has secretly recorded - into a nightmare from
which he is rescued by a timely deus-ex-machina (clearly a
descendant of the great Judex). The most exciting debut in years, it is
unified by the extraordinary decor - colour supplement chic meets pop
art surrealism - which creates a world of totally fantastic reality
situated four-square in contemporary Paris.
Tom Milne
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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