Speaking in Strings
by Paola di Florio
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Actor: Nadja Salerno-SonnenbergDirector: Paola di Florio
Cinematographer: Peter Rader
Producer: Paola di Florio
Editor: Ellen Goldwasser
Producer: Cindy Rosenberg
Producer: Elizabeth Rodgers
Producer: Julie Du Brow
Producer: Lilibet Foster
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 73 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-06-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: New Video Group
Movie Reviews of Speaking in Strings
Movie Review: Passionate and Poetic
Summary: 5 Stars
As in any fine work of art, Paola di Florio combines substance and allusion to touch the strings of the viewer's own emotions and experience. Nadja's purported "bad girl" persona seems less important than the "person" who emerges brassy but sincere, intimate but not maudlin---and whose natural capacity for "feeling" fuels a full range of expression, musical and otherwise. Despite the battery and/or cigarette butt analogy, the film seems largely about love and rediscovered love: grandparent/grandchild, mother/daughter, friends, lovers, life, art---the many layers of which are drawn together by the words of an Italian Christmas carol: "Ah, how much it cost you to have loved me so..." I've read some reviews---and will admit that the film is probably not for the kindergarten class in evolutionary personhood; one needs to be part of the same spiritual "kumpania" to fully appreciate it.
Summary of Speaking in Strings
Described as "possessed, "frightening," and "brilliant," Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg has either enraged or enraptured critics while earning herself the nickname "the bad girl of the violin." Academy Award? nominee Speaking In Strings explores the controversial and fascinating life of this funny, fearless, irreverent, and world-renowned musician. A deeply private look at the woman behind all the accolades and controversy.DVD Features: Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg Biography; Docurama Previews; Interactive Menu; Scene Selection
Emotional, raw, and revealing--those adjectives apply to the documentary Speaking in Strings and the person profiled, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, one of the world's most acclaimed violinists. The intense musician's professional journey, which began at Carnegie Hall when she was a teenager, was sidetracked when she accidentally cut off the tip of a finger and almost ended when she tried to commit suicide. Filmmaker Paola di Florio was a childhood friend, and this intimacy is reflected in frank oncamera interviews. ("Feeling more than anyone I know" can be phenomenal and "a damn curse," she says.) The concert footage is electrifying: Two weeks after the suicide attempt, a possessed Salerno-Sonnenberg once again plays Carnegie Hall. Her mother, friends, fellow musicians, and critics--who say she lets her emotions overpower the music--are heard from. The loudest voice, though, is the honest one of Salerno-Sonnenberg, consumed yet empowered by her talent. "It's amazing what you endure," she says, "when you must." --Valerie Nelson
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