Name: Diva
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1981
Duration: 1 h 57 min
Cast: Frédéric Andréi, Richard Bohringer, Roland Bertin, Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Thuy An Luu

3.7

Diva (1981)

Action, Drama, Thriller • 1h 57m

Overview

Jules, a young Parisian postman, secretly records a concert performance given by the opera singer Cynthia Hawkins, whom he idolises. The following day, Jules runs into a woman who is being pursued by armed thugs. Before she is killed, the woman slips an audio cassette into his mail bag...

Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix

Cast: Frédéric Andréi, Richard Bohringer, Roland Bertin, Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Thuy An Luu, Chantal Deruaz, Anny Romand, Dominique Pinon, Brigitte Lahaie, Gérard Darmon, Jacques Fabbri, Patrick Floersheim, Jean-Jacques Moreau, Tania Zabaloieff, Robyn Bernard, Marthe Moudiki-Moreau, Isabelle Mergault

3.7

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Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray maybe better than StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray?

Best Video Release

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray maybe better than StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray?

StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray from nicolas:
The restoration is excellent and looks magnificent in 4K HDR. It’s a tasteful grade that comes across very naturally film-like. Couldn’t be much happier about that aspect of the release.Have to be the bearer of bad news though as the encode is bad. We’re almost back in the early 4K era with those terrible, bit-starved StudioCanal encodes that came out of France and brought us Total Recall, Basic Instinct etc. While they’ve done worse, this definitely isn’t FiM or VDMS. Highlights are terrible and essentially devoid of any detail, mushy grain also creeps into normal shots here and there, particularly walls or clothing. Essentially areas that are slightly larger and have similar colors and textures.

Format

UHD Blu-ray

UHD Tiers

Disappointing

StudioCanal:

Great restoration and HDR but terrible encoding

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Length

117 mins

Type

Movie

Last Updated

4 months ago

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vanshady, tyyux

Best English-Friendly Release	Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray maybe better than StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray?
Best Video Release	Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray maybe better than StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray? StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray from nicolas: The restoration is excellent and looks magnificent in 4K HDR. It’s a tasteful grade that comes across very naturally film-like. Couldn’t be much happier about that aspect of the release.Have to be the bearer of bad news though as the encode is bad. We’re almost back in the early 4K era with those terrible, bit-starved StudioCanal encodes that came out of France and brought us Total Recall, Basic Instinct etc. While they’ve done worse, this definitely isn’t FiM or VDMS. Highlights are terrible and essentially devoid of any detail, mushy grain also creeps into normal shots here and there, particularly walls or clothing. Essentially areas that are slightly larger and have similar colors and textures.
Format	UHD Blu-ray
UHD Tiers	Disappointing StudioCanal: Great restoration and HDR but terrible encoding
Length	117 mins
Type	Movie
Last Updated	4 months ago
Contributors	vanshady, tyyux