Story Line
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...
“Her voice was his calling.”
Top Cast
Frédéric Andréi
Jules
Richard Bohringer
Gorodish
Roland Bertin
Weinstadt
Wilhelmenia Fernandez
Cynthia Hawkins
Thuy An Luu
Alba
Chantal Deruaz
Nadia
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Rating
6.7/ 10
Release Date
1981-03-11
Runtime
1h 57m
Genres
ActionDramaThriller
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User Reviews (4)
talisencrw
9/10
•8/16/2016This was outstanding. Opera could very much be a metaphor for film to me, and the great way that opera dominates the life of addict Jules here could easily apply to me in my approach to film, and ANY remarkable actress of today.
For example, if I ...
JPV852
7/10
•12/5/2020Despite the ridiculous premise, namely the idea of Taiwanese gangster trying to get a hold of a bootleg recording of an opera singer (to blackmail her to signing a contract with them), the movie is better than I thought it would be going in.
There...
Filipe Manuel Neto
6/10
•3/14/2024**A very experimental film in terms of visuals and aesthetics, but one that disappoints us due to the poor conception of the characters and the lack of harmonization of the plot.**
This film harmoniously brings together two arts that I greatly val...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•8/9/2025That fact that I could listen to the “Ebben? Ne andrò lontana” aria from “La Wally” all day helps gets this off to a cracking start, and then we have a young fan in the form of moped postie “Jules” (Frédéric Andréi) - a lad with a distinctly Jean-Pie...