Copying Beethoven
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Movie Reviews of Copying Beethoven
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.
Movie Review: Fascinating character study
Summary: 4 Stars
Ed Harris did a wonderful job portraying the character of Beethoven. I found the story line to be accurate as much as we know about the man today. It made him very real to me, as a spiritual being - an artist creating with sound, and his love of the effect of sound. The movie was interesting and inspiring, all the way through.
Though it was not thought provoking, the movie had a deeper spiritual aspect that cleared up misconceptions I had about Beethoven, allowing me to enjoy Beethoven's works with enriched understanding of the man himself.
Movie Review: Great screenplay.
Summary: 4 Stars
It's a film worth seeing. It likely didn't happen the way "Copying Beethoven" plays out, but I like original screenplays like this. My parents are well into their 80s and loved the movie, especially since
Ed Harris is from our birth state of New Jersey, which has nothing to do with the movie except a slight music connection: Ed's dad sang with Fred Waring's choir. The beginning, where the copyist is riding in a carriage, hearing a Beethoven fugue inside her head, mixed with all she is seeing outside, is very well pieced together. Cool.
Movie Review: portrait of Beethoven
Summary: 4 Stars
Good portrayal of Beethoven's tempestuous character and very effective excerpts of some of his works of that period on the sound track, especially the 9th symphony.
Somewhat too sugary regarding talk of God and attaining heaven. Very good depiction of his deafness and attempts to "hear" the music. Also very effective presentation
of the ending of the 9th and his discovering the audience's reaction - too many liberties with the copyist's conducting, but it's forgivable.
Movie Review: It Speaks To The Soul
Summary: 4 Stars
I absolutely loved this movie! The acting is superb and the music is excellent. It depicts the attitudes of the time toward women trying to be recognized for their talents in music, and the obsessive drive of all musicians to reproduce in music what they feel deep in their soul.
When "Beethoven" (Ed Harris), described to "Anna" what it is to be a musician, it brought a tear to my eye. Being a lifelong musician myself, it was the best description I have ever heard.