Copying Beethoven

Copying Beethoven
by Agnieszka Holland

Copying Beethoven
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Actor: Bill Stewart, Diane Kruger, Ed Harris, Matyelok Gibbs, Ralph Riach
Director: Agnieszka Holland
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-04-03
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

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Movie Review: Visually stunning
Summary: 4 Stars

Copying Beethoven is not meant to be a biography and is not a documentary. We all know the real facts about the first performance of Beethoven's ninth ( or perhaps we all think that we know). We all seem to know that they are not depicted historically in this film.

Copying Beethoven is just a charming film, a piece of cinematic art, that is a pleasure to view and to hear. Each face is a portrait and each scene is tastefully presented to us, the viewers.

So rather than pick it apart, thinking that it was trying to be what it wasn't, I suggest that we all just relax, watch, listen and enjoy.

Summary of Copying Beethoven

When young Anna Holz (Diane Kruger), a Viennese music student is asked to transcribe scoring notes for the great Ludwig van Beethoven (Harris), she eagerly accepts, despite warnings about his volatile behavior. Part maestro, part mentor and part madman, Beethoven reluctantly relies on Anna to help him realize the culmination of his art.

A passionate, powerful drama based loosely on the final months of Ludwig van Beethoven's life, Copying Beethoven finds the maestro a haunted man, composing the most revolutionary yet unappreciated work of his lifetime; largely deaf; disappointed in his relationship with a wastrel nephew; and fascinated by a young, female composer, Anna Holtz (Diane Kruger), who goes to work for him transcribing music. Staying as a guest at a convent and engaged to a stolid engineer, Anna is drawn to Beethoven's tempestuous genius. Half the time he's enchanted by her and seems to see straight through to her soul. The other half, he's shouting at her for her timidity or flattery. Hardly a mouse, Anna fights back. The more she does, the more Beethoven recognizes in her a kindred survivor, someone with whom he can reveal his vulnerability and the burden of his artistry. Ed Harris' Beethoven is wracked by pain but not overwhelmed by it; he looks like a man who understands his responsibility to nature too well to merely disintegrate. ("God whispers in most men's ears," Beethoven says. "He shouts in mine.") Director Agnieszka Holland (Olivier, Olivier) oversees a handsome, alternately tender and brutal drama, with several thrilling moments, including the stunned look of audience members hearing the world premiere of the glorious 9th Symphony. --Tom Keogh

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Watch Ed Harris speak about portraying Beethoven in this exclusive clip.



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