Diva - Sentimental Walk

[SistahTemple]

Says so much, yet not a word is uttered. C'est Magnifique! Merci.

[rscmrcmd]

Never fails to get me and I will never forget seeing DIVA for the first time in NYC. Thanks so much for posting.

[592christine]

Music EXACTLY like this soundtrack is really hard to find. This piece is based off of the Gymnopedies by Erik Satie. Brian Eno's Discreet Music, Pachelbel Variations, Music for Airports, Neroli, and Thursday Afternoon are close. The work of Arvo Part such as Alina and "spiegel im spiegel" are amazing. After showing this movie to my friends, I can say it either changes your life or it is absolutely ignored.

[592christine]

I became a classical music composer because of this film's music. Literally changed my life. Got to see it on screen in NYC a few years ago. AMAZING!

[gvt2u]

This movie had a huge impact on me when I saw it in the theater when it was released in the USA, and I listened to the soundtrack continuously.

[CarloAchdjian]

Brilliance in music and photography

[yuucyandesu]

暗すぎる

too dark

[CarloAchdjian]

I think this was part of the Gnossienne (Erik Satie) study that Cosma did...maybe I'm mistaken, but at any rate, this is incredibly sublime

[twangville]

@CarloAchdjian In fact, I have been compiling this for years - Satie and Cosma - and some Eno/Budd - with the Floyd from More - amazing and timeless

[CarloAchdjian]

@twangville So I'm not alone in my thinking...interesting. Eno as in Brian Eno? Life in a Bush of Ghost?

[twangville]

@CarloAchdjian The Works with Harold Budd seem appropriate - Fourth World/Possible Musics : Pearl and its Predecessor; check also the fabulous soundtrack from Unfaithful - the american remake which is dull but the soundtrack is better than the Chabrol Original - pretty interesting - methinks - is also Max Richter - as contemporary classic and fits perfectly

[geoteb9000]

Why didn't I write this piece? 

[tumshfibrox58]

@geoteb9000 Because I should have written it! You have taste, my friend. :-)

[geoteb9000]

Why didn't I write this piece? Oh yeah, I forgot, because I have no soul.

[sslohier]

this is so classy and tender.. love it

[ilbulga]

I've got this music if you want to learn it . nice music

[chris92issy]

alentours de magie .....

[bright93]

If you are dead, it still makes you feel something...sublime!

[vladimirkapralov]

BEAUTY IN SIMPLICITY

[gavkasso]

Vladimir Cosma

[TheGmcFilms]

This piece is right up there with the very, very best in composition, thats right Beethoven Mozart, Bach, you name it, all in the same room and to a man they would all agree that this piece is beautiful...G...

[uksnootyfox]

This is film making as it should be. Forget Hollywood, forget CGI, this is how things should be done. DIVA is a masterclass in film making!

[neurotoksin]

i feel like crying and laughing at the same time.....

this is art

[bodoboi]

A very welcome reminder of 80s French cinema - this scene is surely an evocative paean to the City of Light

[m58elster]

Movie magic at its finest. The use of proximity and gesture rather than language, the

soft blue lighting both outdoors and in, the placement of this scene at the point in the

story where it appears, and perhaps most of all, the way the bird calls slowly work

their way to the fore near the end -- the effect is completely bewitching. It's as if your

consciousness was gently lifted and deposited into this beautiful place that, only a

moment before, you didn't even know existed.

[1diamondK]

Possibly the most beautiful piano peace, ever.

[vladimirkapralov]

beauty in simplicity/excellent.thanx

[smikestack]

This piano piece and this cine sequence should be played every day, in every school, in every country in the world, for ever.

I keep hitting "replay".

A remarkable film that I have remained very fond of, no matter the various clever quibbles that people make about it!

[spacecricket]

I first saw this in my high school french class way back in the early 1990s. It made such a deep impression on me. In fact, I made a promise to myself that I would find a way to study in Paris for a year. After many years of hard work, I managed to get a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Paris for the 1998-1999 academic year. It was a dream come true, and it all started with this one scene...

[itzoucr]

wow! This is proof that to do without the arts in classrooms is a disservice to children from around the world.  Good for you!

[Reulor]

One of the best Films ever. Brings back some memories...

[ororand]

I just turned on the radio on Itunes and this piece was played at that time. and I had to stop everything what I was doing and stood up frozen tilll it ended...

[frenchyfries4you]

and Cosma just took the piece from Satie, sorry, but Cosma have done really great music. but this one is not coming from his genious...

[frenchyfries4you]

it's taken from promenades sentimentales , from eric Satie, a man which have never open a letter for 30 years. I understand it very much on this.

the song have been slightly changed, but IT IS Eric Satie, indeed.

[ted2u2]

I'll drink to that. 

[shadesspar]

pure magic ...

[anasthasys]

... inspired by a little Romanian old song - Bartok must've loved it, too, writing his Buciumeana

beats counting to ten by a long shot :)

[PialatBernard]

Superbe film, superbe musique

Soleil

[CincinnatusUSA]

A dream, a reflection, a memory...

[coolChickLA]

Thank you!

[danskTRIGGER]

one hell of a film - i still remeber every bit - even the clue - hahaaaa

[jimdivax]

I lived in Paris for a year in the 80s. After long, and I mean VERY long nights in clubs, and drowsy dawn walks home I used to play this on my cassette-player ( yeah -remember those?) What a city! What a great memory!

[SvalbardJanMayen1976]

@jimdivax I grew up in Virginia, and I can relate to Paris in the dawn, no other place like it.

[auritenow]

If this doesn't make you feel something, you are dead.

[neurotoksin]

@auritenow word

[MeredithWaters]

About the sheet music to this - I didn't find it either, but could pick it out, if that is hard for you, learn Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1 and your fingers will be able to find their way through this.

[euka01]

@MeredithWaters I have the sheet

[TheNaomiengland]

I saw this movie when I was 19 and I still love it

[nochemicaldrugs]

composed by Vladimir Cosma

[Unell08]

beauty at it's best!!!

[WhatAxBrit]

anyone know where i can find sheet music for this song on piano? i can't seem to find it anywhere

[itosamja]

pure perfection!!!

[jadefire1000]

jadefire1000 The love scene speaks with color, music, and quiet stares.

[solnegrolunaroja]

I've seen many many movies and heard many soundtracks, but this is by far the best I can remember, It is followed closely, perhaps, by Blade Runner's OST

[Vagrarian]

My favorite film of all time, and such a wonderful scene. A predawn walk in a beautiful city, the birds singing...and then a simple touch and a look of understanding. That, my friends, is romance. A sweet, innocent-yet-kinda-sexy scene that remains fresh and charming thirty years later. So much is communicated between them, no dialogue is necessary.

[avner63]

This film is my lovely Paris ... feeling doesn't change

[Domino123456Nastia]

i need the piano music sheets!

[oxygene65]

fantastic soundtrack to the whole film, still one of my favourite movies of all time.

[danskTRIGGER]

its an amazingly beautiful track and an extremely good movie - love it! Thanks dude! TRIGGER

[solnegrolunaroja]

I don't know how to say how much I thank you this. I'ts incredible how much time has been, this movie brings me back some of the few happy memories I have

[gvt2u]

One of my favorite pieces of music ever.

[californiacamera]

Great to see this. I only saw Diva once, in the 80s, but Sentimental Walk was the highlight for me. I bought the Philip Aaberg version through iTunes, it's faithful to the sound here, and a cleaner recording than the soundtrack.

[TheNaomiengland]

I love this movie this was myfirst French film. I think the french make better moives. Has anyone seen Blond Dolly 1987 Dutch movie.

[Alosnup]

Is one of the best themes who ever write on music!!

[BestofPortland]

Does anyone know where to get the sheet music for this song? I've figured out about a third of it.

[Localulu27]

So pretty

[tmtmshow]

This is my favourite scene. When I finish the DVD I always go back and re-watch this scene.

[kwissie2]

were watching this in my french class. i freaking love this song =s

[Devataru]

Beautyyyyyyyyyyyyyy...........­...

[missasegei]

Love this scene!!! And the music!

[ondineshimmers]

best scene in movie history

[mauromez]

Yes one of the best scene in movie history.

[fuckyt69]

Lovelymovieilikethismoviealota­ndbythewaydokyoozlikecuminhism­outh.

[desertmouse1]

so satie

[afn2]

Nice, but that reverb is plain awful! Ruins the whole beautiful piece.

Seek out the CD "Cinema" by Philip Aaberg on Windham Hill Records for the definitive recording of "Sentimental Walk". Seriously. Do it. You won't regret it.

[Mamasan41]

I love the reverb!!!

[ondineshimmers]

agreed, the reverb works!

[worm082]

so dark ruins it

[Mamasan41]

actual movie not this dark

[oxygene65]

Diva is such an amazing film. It reeks class. It has not aged at all because it was pure quality then, and quality never fades.

[0oIronMaideno0]

Near the start of the film how do i find that kind of off key funky kind of song that plays when those guys kill that prostitute.

[blefusku]

very 80's film, i love it

[VeraEva12]

what a beautiful kind of music.

was very difficult to find it, i've seen the film and remeber the sound.

thank google and vladimir cosma!

[scifiwritir]

This is one of the most beautiful sweet and erotic scenes ever filmed. Vladmir Cosma's music is just perfect. I heard this done on a guitar once. Quite nice...haunting in another way.

[MickeyBeograd]

Vladimir Cosma is genious!!!AWESOME FILM,MUSIC AND EVERYTHING!!!!!I feel this music every morning when I m drinking cafelate!!!BEYOND AND ETERNAL!!!

[bright93]

Has there ever been a better mating of image, music and sentiment? I first experienced Diva in 1982 and over the years obtained the LP, CD and then DVD as these became available. I truly adore Diva. I wish it would linger on forever....

[m58elster]

@bright93 As long as you are alive, it does linger on forever. Lidd you, this

is a movie that has stayed with me from the very first moment.

[m58elster]

@m58elster Sorry, meant to type "Like you,"

[coolyah1]

Diva has one of the best story-arcs and the finest triple -interlayered plots in all of film history. Jean Jacques Beniex showed the rest of the world how it should be done - many have copied him and not given him the credit he deserves. This film is considered by many to be the best film of all time - all elements sparked and resonated in a relaxed by coordinated fashion. Beautiful, will watch many more times. Tell everyone you know to see this film - the music is wonderful as well.

[VictorianSquire]

Modernistic romanticism at it's most refined, in today's contemporary terms. It should appeal to the layman too, as ironically it is the layman that will understand fully the emotions here. This is the class hampering effect, that is probably in full influence from Dicken's Great Expectations.

[brymacc]

This is my all-time favorite film. No one I ask has ever seen it so you people rock! I must have seen it 7 or 8 times in the last 25 years. I once met a beautiful and delightful woman who had the same top 3 films as me, Diva, The Enigma of Kasper Hauser and ...don't recall the third one. Sadly she had a boyfriend at the time! Love this scene... the moods, the visuals and the piano. Thanks for posting it!

[totovillefranche]

played this when the lights were turned on, at 5am, and people had to go home, after dancing all night long; standing ovation, nobody expected this; only Satie equals.

[CalvoMexas]

Wonderfull sound.

[pierstheoneandonly]

Your soul could fly down the streets in such a luminous blue twilight. Exquisite theme. Vangelis' theme to Polanski's 'Bitter Moon' is in a very similar place.

[VictorianSquire]

This is true. I'm surprised anyone has made the same comparative allusion. It's the romanticism of Paris.. . bittersweet and swathed in blue. Vangelis's themetics of Paris is swamped with the same thing.

[jzzct]

I LOVE this movie. I saw it over and over again in 1983. I love the music and the imagery in it. Watching this passage so makes me want to go back to Paris. Is there any sheet music for Sentimental Walk? I've been trying to find some, but with no success.

[tojour]

Thanks russnrobb. I'd almost forgotten to look this one up. Interesting movie, the wordless scenes are very sensory; make me feel like I am there watching close by.

[flaviotrue]

The best music for a movie. you don't need any word.

[gonzilito]

Este "promenade" fue mi primera revelación del Paris que viví en los años ochenta

Merci bien Diva!

[vasques29]

adoro essa musica!!!

Me parece estar passeando em Paris com meu José!

[walkingbear56]

The whole film is a joy to watch.. style, twists and the inimatable Richard Bohringer with his citroen traction avant... "favoured by police and gangsters alike".

I forget how many times I have walked in Le jardin des Tuileries with this piece on the cd walkman (not the mp3) different generation. If you can get a copy of the film music you will be happy

[VictorianSquire]

I conducted an entire Seminar at an Art College purely on the strength on this passage from this film. Paris, romance. . . it's there, all of it. Moments in life.

[walkingbear56]

I would have loved to have been at that seminar.

Paris is special... still.

[stargate669]

this music is outlawed in the States as is the film. Anyone that sees it goes to guantanamo bay for torture..oops I mean questioning. Thanks for posting.

[nancyl2]

@stargate669 An Angel Being sent this to me a long time ago. After the movie "Slumdog Millionair" I take it This is a must see. ;-) I love the music. Such beautiful notes after such a blinging-holiday of moments of awakening. Love your s/n name, why I chose to reply to you. Love to know how you chose it? Have a blessed Happy New Year. <3 To U

[FlinnMilligan]

I managed to convince my french teacher to play this film in class, I looked around about an hour in and everybody was asleep. Philistines.

[tojour]

Hah! I like your sincerity. It is humorous but true.. Oh, well. It was I'm sure a delight for at least one of those students.

[Malocosa]

Beautiful song...it touches you on so many levels, making you feel reflective, solitary, and just mildly sad but in a good way.

[vurtuality]

I still own this on VHS. Not certain when I was able to watch this in a theater, but I did once. However I was the right age for 37.2 le matin, and that I saw 19 times at the theater with my then girlfriend. Beineix...

[Oddely]

Ce film est incroyablement bon! je l'ai vu deux fois et j'ai encore envie de le voir!

[formosadavid]

whenever I want to give someone something "special",,I will make a CD and start it with this song,,, or MAKE them watch this movie with me. I remember seeing it as a kid and it just blew me away, and it still holds up so well. timeless beauty. Check out Blue/Red/White (French films) for more amazing music, and unique beauty.

[saintjulien33250]

Just finished watching it for the first time since 1987. 21 years later, I found it more beautiful than the first time and wept at the end. Must see.

[p3acenRevalAshun]

If u watched it online, where did u see it? It seems like an interesting movie.

[saintjulien33250]

I bought the DVD from Amazon.

[Squeaky1423]

I love this movie so much. I came out in the theaters again last year & I was so lucky to see it on the big screen, it is so lovely and amazing, and this is one of my favorite scenes ever!!!!

[Twistlock19]

I just plain love the movie.

[Starter61]

The best scene of the film, with the best piece of music. Really poetic. Congratulations to Mr Beinex, Mr Cosma, the actors, and the person who is operating the camera. An excellent piece of international cinematography, in my opinion.

[Holz1917]

This piece was written by Vladimir Cosma

[DAVETYIOP]

Could you post the Abandoned Factory scene please. I have the movie and the soundtrack too. The Sentimental Walk scene does it for me! Thanks for posting it!

[DavidMJordan]

This sounds like a piece by Eric Satie. Who wrote it?

[Gr8tCompany]

Oui !, Merci !

[lisatwix]

where can i find the sheet music?!!

help please?

[worm082]

you cant even make out their faces its so dark.

[Mamasan41]

The movie itself is not this dark, watched it last night!

[lytterandektig]

it is summer 1987, a friend playing this beautiful piece of music on his Steinway. I was sitting in the garden, drinking a glass of Riesling, meanwhile the sound pured out through the open doors....What a beautiful memory! Thanks for posting dokyooz!

[1hopelessromantic]

Your comment made me cry. I live for moments like that. You are lucky to have that one.

[greedygretch]

I had this on cassett a long time ago and let someone "borrow" it and never got it back! This is the most beautiful song...i so want to go to Paris....

[guyblank]

The movie has been re-released for it's 25th anniversary at selected theaters in the US. There is a new print of the film making the colors mind boggling.

If you have only seen it on DVD, please go to see it if you get the chance.

[Squeaky1423]

I would LOVE to see this movie on the big screen. I only have it on VHS! Where is it screening?

[Squeaky1423]

It was playing in west LA, and I got to see it on the big screen...magical!

[Squeaky1423]

I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!!!

[Longfellow10]

beautiful....

[danilopilz]

Thank you, thank you, thank you, even for the half-second of phone ringing - it's a good reminder that all the calm and reflection for Cynthia and Jules are about to end and that he has something he REALLY should tell her about. I really need to see this movie again.

[5kjs]

I have been searching . . . .takes me to the most lovely place. Whenever I want to dream, slow down, I bring this wonderful song to mind. Thank you.

[respaldod]

Oh I've been looking for that song from the movie Diva, a favorite movie. Thanks! I have to say, I wish you had cut the clip about a half second earlier so we wouldn't hear the phone ringing at the end. A beautiful piece of music.

[jnberger]

Of all the scenes in the world, this is possibly my favorite. It takes the viewer out of the mob story and puts them into a calm, melancholy, and trance like world. Beautiful.