Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
by Jean-Marie Straub, Daničle Huillet
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Actor: Bernd Weikl, Bob van Asperen, Christiane Lang, Gustav Leonhardt, Wolfgang SchöneDirector: Daničle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); German (Original Language), Unknown; German (Dubbed), Unknown
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: New Yorker Video
Movie Reviews of Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
Movie Review: It's About Music, Not Entertainment
Summary: 5 Stars
The gaunt, cerebral Gustav Leonhardt makes an utterly implausible Johann Sebastian Bach, until he sits down at the keyboard. Then there is something ineffably touching about watching him project his empathy with the long-dead composer who has dominated his own musical life. Leonhardt couldn't act but he surely could play.
I saw this movie at least thirty years ago, but I remember the impression it made on me vividly, which is perhaps the most ardent praise I could confer on any movie. I'm amazed and pleased to discover that it's been re-released.
The reviewer who complains that it's boring has to be taken seriously. I think that if you're not fanatically committed to the music of Bach, you will find the whole thing colorless and slow. And I know enough about Bach--his life, his family, his community in late Baroque Germany--to declare that this is hardly an accurate biographical portrayal. It is what it is, an eloquent expression of the director's and the performers' obsession with the greatest composer of history.
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