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The Red Violin by Fran?ois Girard
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DVD Cover InformationActor: Carlo Cecchi, Christoph Koncz, Greta Scacchi, Jason Flemyng, Jean-Luc Bideau Director: Fran?ois Girard Brand: Lions Gate Cinematographer: Alain Dostie Writer: Fran?ois Girard Producer: Barbara Shrier Producer: Daniel Iron Producer: Giannandrea Pecorelli Producer: Niv Fichman Writer: Don McKellar DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); German (Original Language); Italian (Original Language) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 131 minutes DVD Release Date: 2003-05-20 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of The Red ViolinMovie Review: Beautiful movie and beautiful music Summary: 5 StarsI can remember the first time i saw this movie and recall just being brought to tears by the music alone. It is so well composed and joshua bell on the violin as soloist is amazing and to today is still one of my favorite solo artists for the violin. And the movie itself is just one of my favorite surprises to date. I went to the oriental downtown milwaukee expecting a dramatic samuel jackson movie and got an astounding foreign film rich and beautiful with multiple languages and cultures. The story of this violin painted with the blood of the makers wife and strings strung of her hair is so poetic and profound with disaster and sorrow!! It is a movie where there is nothing particularly grand, glorified or wonderful about any of the characters because it is all about the violin and its music of harrowed history.
Summary of The Red ViolinStudio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 05/20/2003 Run time: 132 minutes Rating: R Mounted in high lavish style, from the opening strains to coda, The Red Violin pays homage to the careful uses of color and composition without bothering to support these qualities with any real substance. Oh, it's a class act on the surface all the way, while failing on nearly every other level to convince. The story tells the story, revealing precious little else. The 17th-century Cremonese instrument-maker Niccolo Bussotti finishes his final violin with a curious red varnish, the secret of which spans the film, yet will come as a surprise only to the very sleepy. The odd voyage of this unique violin through history is then explored from one episode to the next, from child prodigy to gypsies to Victorian virtuoso to a clandestine enclave of art lovers in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution. This is all framed by the violin's rediscovery in present day by instrument appraiser Charles Morritz (Samuel?L. Jackson), for whom the perfect instrument strikes a resonant chord. The main scheme of the film, an object connecting a number of seemingly disparate stories, has been used many times, most notably in Max Ophuls's La Ronde. But while this approach is employed elsewhere to cause one scene to reverberate against another, The Red Violin is content to leave each episode thematically unconnected with any of the others. On the decorative level, the film may satisfy many viewers with its sensuous attention to tone and detail, as well as its eclectic and expertly performed score. But as narrative it is very slight. Just pierce the pretty crust of this puff pastry and gaze in wonder at the pocket of air within. --Jim Gay
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