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Diva Reviews
[Director Jean-Jacques] Beineix may not be interested in what’s underneath, but he has a great feeling for surfaces. A chase through the Métro and an escape to a pinball-machine and video-game arcade are so ravishing that they’re funny, intentionally.
| Sep 19, 2023
Yes, this film is a little contrived at times, but it’s still one of the best pictures I've seen all year. Hats off to the French!
| Aug 10, 2022
I was no opera fan at the time, indeed had found that musical form somewhat alienating, and yet after being mesmerised by the aria performed by soprano Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez near the start of the film, the barriers began to melt.
| Jul 29, 2022
Beineixs film delights, if not overwhelms, the eye. (And in its obsession with the beauty and power of the human voice, Diva might also be thought of as an illustration of the cinéma du listen). Its bewitchery hasnt dimmed more than forty years later.
| Apr 29, 2022
In his first feature-length film, director Jean-Jacques Beineix shows a fanciful, tongue-in-cheek talent for spoofing old mysteries, creating incongruously beautiful photographic images and mixing it all up with a touch of Zen. Delightfully original.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 11, 2021
An art-house flick that should appeal even to people who don't like art-house flicks.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 16, 2020
Diva hasn't dated a moment, stylistically or topically, for the movie is, in many ways, a sublimely entertaining debate on the legality and morality of trying to capture the artistic moment in a bottle.
| May 29, 2020
Ostensibly the film is a comedy thriller. Other than a few sight gags the humor is noticeably missing and the thrills only come if you completely suspend credibility.
| May 12, 2020
Diva is a cinematic textbook on style. It comments on so many facets of the daily contemporary culture -- and of film -- that it seems to be an inspired shorthand.
| Apr 27, 2018
Beineix makes a colorful, rhythmic thriller -- the beauty intensifies the suspense... Diva's freshness invites you beyond movies for comparisons.
| Jan 10, 2018
There's no telling how many audience members this film turned into instant opera fans.
| Original Score: A- | Jun 14, 2017
[An] enthusiastic celebration of consuming beautiful things because they are beautiful.
| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 17, 2016
| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011
| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011
| Original Score: A | Sep 7, 2011
A topsy-turvy wonderland of stylistic riffs and thematic threads reverberating back on themselves for the sheer, exuberant, sexy hell of it.
| Apr 28, 2011
The movie's a maelstrom of possibilities touching ethnic relations, high art, fashion and modern morality, not to mention cinema.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 18, 2008
Director Jean Jacques-Beineix's pop art pastiche is a glittering mix of artifice and genuine cool with its intricate yet effortless thriller plot enacted by some of the screen's most individual and eccentric characters; its combination of playful sexiness
| May 22, 2008
Jean-Jacques Beniex's bold experiment is worth a place of importance in cinematic history.
| Mar 22, 2008