#delacorta

[aranazo]

Diva by Delacorta with a cover using one of the posters from the Jean-Jacques Beineix film adaptation. Delacorta is the pen name of Zen Master Daniel Odier.

[fromthedust]

DIVA - 1981 - after the novel by Delacorta

Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix

Music: Vladimir Cosma

Cast:

Cynthia Hawkins as Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez Frédéric Andréi as Jules Richard Bohringer as Serge Gorodish Thuy An Luu as Alba Jacques Fabbri as Commissaire Jean Saporta Chantal Deruaz as Nadia Kalanski Anny Romand as Paula Roland Bertin as Simon Weinstadt Gérard Darmon as L' Antillais Dominique Pinon as Le curé Patrick Floersheim as Zatopek

Two tapes, two Parisian mob killers, one corrupt policeman, an opera fan, a teenage thief, a cool philosopher . . .  and a chase scene to rival that in the French Connection. And can you guess what Le curé (Dominique Pinon) listens to all the time?

Delacorta novels in the series

[gregorygalloway]

34-year-old Jean-Jacques Beineix‘s feature film debut, Diva, was released in France on 11 March 1981.

Based on Daniel Odier‘s 1979 novel (published under the pseudonym Delacorta), Diva was initially a critical and commercial failure in France, but once it received overwhelmingly positive reactions after its US release in 1982, the film found an audience back home.

[vsthepomegranate]

Diva (1981)

[bnnvll]

[redarmyscreaming]

Diva 1981.

[mollykiely]

Alba; ink on illustration board, 2012. By Molly Kiely.