Diva (1981) - Frederic Andrei & Thuy An Luu (Dir. Jean-Jacques Beineux)

My favourite scene from my favourite film. Briefly, postman Jules (Frederic Andrei) is an opera fan obsessed with the eponymous 'Diva' Cynthia Hawkins (played by real-life opera singer Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez) who refuses to record. He has managed to make a bootleg recording of the singer and takes his friend, the young thief Alba (Thuy An Luu) to his amazing loft apartment to play it to her. Oh, and he also happens to be on the run from a couple of psychopathic hit-men (one of who is a very young Dominique Pinon) after an incriminating cassette he has in his possession - just in case you were wondering what the fairground sequence is all about! This was the film that introduced me to opera, and a larger audience to a relatively unknown opera called 'La Wally' by Alfredo Catalini. I've never managed to find another film with the young Vietnamese actress Thuy An Luu in, but based on her performance in 'Diva' she ought to have made a lot more.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Diva
• Jean-Jacques Beineux
• Frederic Andrei
• Thuy An Luu
• La Wally
• Catalini

[BobbyD167]

how old was she?

[EK9LOVE]

This is my fav.scene...and this Vietnamese ancestry actress is so sweet ;)

[EJBronteable]

Jules is a pretty boy :)

[kid56us]

From such a simple act of innocence ensues such chaos, Brilliantly directed!

[maybelatta]

bravo diva!

[bibicool65]

Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, actrice américaine qui chante aussi... Mais comme on est loin dans "Diva" de la perfection de cette même aria quand elle est interprétée par Maria Callas, ou, mieux encore, par la divine Tébaldi !...

[mohansen11]

@77hodag p.s. If you haven't seen the film, Jules meets Alba when she is shoplifting some records from his friend's store by slipping the records inside her model portfolio (which is filled with nudes).

[mohansen11]

@77hodag It's difficult now that we buy all our music on the internet. ; )

[77hodag]

Why can't I ever meet girls like this?

[artistkeith3]

Je n'aime pas de Beethoven. LOL! This film puts me right back into the 80s, in a dirty little art film theatre in Bloomington, IN. I have both the DVD & VHS,

Il est classique!