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 What the Critics Said About Diva
“GENUINELY SPARKLING!… Beineix has a fabulous camera technique and understands the pleasures to be had from a picture that doesn't take itself too seriously-the whole high-tech incandescence of the film is played for humor…If Diva is about anything, it’s about the joy of making movies. EVERY SHOT SEEMS DESIGNED TO DELIGHT THE AUDIENCE.”
– Pauline Kael, The New Yorker

“It is ONE OF THE BEST THRILLERS OF RECENT YEARS but, more than that, it is a brilliant film, a visual extravaganza that announces the considerable gifts of its young director, Jean-Jacques Beineix. He has made a film that is about many things, but I think the real subject of Diva is the director's joy in making it.”
– Roger Ebert

“You have only to watch ten minutes of Diva and you know you are in the hands of a man born to make movies. SENSUAL, FUNNY, OUTLANDISH, THIS IS A MOVIE DEVOTED STRICTLY TO THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE. ”
– David Ansen, Newsweek

“A PIECE OF DIVINE MADNESS, full of comedy romance, opera and murder. Diva is a thriller with a new way of looking at the world – through a glass, brightly.”
– Michael Sragow, Rolling Stone

“Not only the most purely pleasurable movie to open here this year, but surely one of the finest films to arrive from France in a decade.”
– J. Hoberman, The Village Voice

“THE MOST IMPRESSIVE DEBUT FROM A FRENCH DIRECTOR SINCE GODARD’S BREATHLESS.’’
– Jay Scott, The Globe and Mail
 

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