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Join us for our weekly Sunday 1 p.m. matinee screening series with the 1981 arthouse smash “Diva,” in digital projection.
DIVA | 1981 | DIRECTOR: Jean-Jacques Beineix | WITH: Wilhelmina Fernandez, Frederic Andrei, Roland Bertin | RUNNING TIME: 1H 57M | RATED R for brief violence, sexual situations, nudity and adult themes | DIGITAL PROJECTION
Jean-Jacques Beineix (“Betty Blue,” “The Moon in the Gutter”) directs this exhilarating action-thriller about Jules, a young opera-loving mailman who becomes inadvertently entangled in murder after a young woman fleeing two mob hit men drops an incriminating cassette into his mailbag.
Jules has just recently recorded opera star Cynthia Hawkins’ latest concert, something of a coup as Hawkins refuses to make recordings of any kind. Soon Jules finds himself the target of the hit men, who want the voice recording, and also of another couple of ominous and mysterious agents.
“Take the chase between that moped and a cop. I didn’t think I could find this movie more enthralling or impressive. Then these two go at it. The pursuit starts on the streets, vrooming through the arcades along Rue de Rivoli, plunges into the Métro and, fittingly for this movie, terminates at the feet of the Paris Opera.
“When Jules motors down into the subway, most cops would give up. This one abandons his car and uses his feet. I haven’t seen anybody want to catch anything this desperately and this unsuccessfully since Wile E. Coyote. You can imagine Tom Cruise refusing to relent, too. But after Jules gets away, you’d never catch Cruise this doubled over and out of breath. — Wesley Morris, The New York Times
The screening will be introduced by Bill Cosford Cinema manager Rene Rodriguez. Tickets are $5 and available at link above. Students use code UMSTUDENT at checkout for free admission. Cane card must be shown at the door.
