Yehudi Menuhin
by Tony Palmer
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Actor: Yehudi MenuhinDirector: Tony Palmer
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-06-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Yehudi Menuhin
Movie Review: An intimate portrait and documentary of the man
Summary: 5 Stars
A few comments on this one: I'm not quite quite sure why some reviewers become "disappointed" that there is more talk versus play in this DVD because it is, after all, a portrait documentary of the man versus so many other DVD's where his playing becomes the highlight with a miniumum of talk or indeed, and in this documentary, multiple family input about the man spanning a long period of time.
One reviewer made comment of Sir Yehudi being "cut off too many times" although I must comment that this was not the fault of Tony Palmer but more so, IMO, Lady Diana Menuhin, who often prevented Sir Yehudi from getting a word in edge-wise without a series of protracted rebukes and almost motherly scoldings a la mode. There is such a thing as being 'protective' of someone and quite another of being patently over-bearing! Judge for yourself from what you see! It seemed that the man couldn't say anything without his wife demanding a 'qualification' of what he meant or, indeed, 'why' he said what he did! Or that his comment was 'silly' or 'misguided' -- one thing, Sir Yehudi did a lot of smiling quite possibly knowing that further comment or argument or reaction(s) to a veritable laundry list of alleged faults would be quite fruitless.
So too, this DVD is no white-wash and family member input can be quite revealing ranging from the parents and their alleged faults [as viewed by the original Menuhin children] right down to the last years of Sir Yehudi's life and his own relationships with his children by two marriages. If anything, it's a rather intimate portrait of the man's life and the 'problems' contained therein where one is "overly sheltered from reality in his youth" or, in subsequent "bark on" Menuhin biographies, how it is charged that Sir Yehudi "seemed to have time and attention for collective humanity per se but when it came to individualized attention, specifically of family and their own 'individual' needs, that was another matter." This J'accuse is then defended and/or mitigated [depending on who is speaking] by those family members so involved. In effect, the roses AND the thorns are discussed but the focus remains Menuhin as the the boy prodigy and Menuhin the subsequent man but with carry-over problems albeit along side his long-term playing career and his other life achievements.
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