Diva

A lady prone to technique but dazzling nonetheless, DIVA is visually astonishing film fare. The complex plot concerns Andrei, a young Parisian mail carrier, and his love for Fernandez, a famous black American opera singer. Andrei attends a performance by the diva, recording it secretly while a sinister Taiwanese man watches him. In a separate incident a dazed girl walking through the Paris metro is murdered by two thugs--the greasy Darmon and the punkish, bald Pinon. As the girl dies she slips an audiocassette into Andrei's mailpouch. Andrei now finds himself unwittingly caught in two plots: that of Taiwanese record pirates who want his recording of the diva and th...