The Red Violin (1998)
(Il violino rosso)
Country: CAN/IT
Technical: col 130m
Director: François Girard
Cast: Carlo Cecchi, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jason Flemyng, Greta Scacchi, Sylvia Chang, Samuel L. Jackson, Colm Feore
Synopsis:
As various interested parties gather at a Montreal auctioneers' to bid for a legendary violin, we learn of the instrument's history and how it brought unhappiness to its maker and a succession of owners.
Review:
Not quite technically detailed enough for specialists, this comes over for the most part like one of those old-fashioned portmanteaux (The Yellow Rolls Royce, The Mirror episode in Dead of Night) except that its colourfully presented stories tend to fizzle out before they have got going. It does, however, succeed in conveying some sense of awe for the instrument maker's art, due in no small way to Jackson's acting contribution. A lovingly crafted jewel, to use its own violin maker's putdown, whose specially composed music alone conjures up the requisite transcendental quality.
(Il violino rosso)
Country: CAN/IT
Technical: col 130m
Director: François Girard
Cast: Carlo Cecchi, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jason Flemyng, Greta Scacchi, Sylvia Chang, Samuel L. Jackson, Colm Feore
Synopsis:
As various interested parties gather at a Montreal auctioneers' to bid for a legendary violin, we learn of the instrument's history and how it brought unhappiness to its maker and a succession of owners.
Review:
Not quite technically detailed enough for specialists, this comes over for the most part like one of those old-fashioned portmanteaux (The Yellow Rolls Royce, The Mirror episode in Dead of Night) except that its colourfully presented stories tend to fizzle out before they have got going. It does, however, succeed in conveying some sense of awe for the instrument maker's art, due in no small way to Jackson's acting contribution. A lovingly crafted jewel, to use its own violin maker's putdown, whose specially composed music alone conjures up the requisite transcendental quality.
(Il violino rosso)
Country: CAN/IT
Technical: col 130m
Director: François Girard
Cast: Carlo Cecchi, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jason Flemyng, Greta Scacchi, Sylvia Chang, Samuel L. Jackson, Colm Feore
Synopsis:
As various interested parties gather at a Montreal auctioneers' to bid for a legendary violin, we learn of the instrument's history and how it brought unhappiness to its maker and a succession of owners.
Review:
Not quite technically detailed enough for specialists, this comes over for the most part like one of those old-fashioned portmanteaux (The Yellow Rolls Royce, The Mirror episode in Dead of Night) except that its colourfully presented stories tend to fizzle out before they have got going. It does, however, succeed in conveying some sense of awe for the instrument maker's art, due in no small way to Jackson's acting contribution. A lovingly crafted jewel, to use its own violin maker's putdown, whose specially composed music alone conjures up the requisite transcendental quality.