Copying Beethoven (Widescreen) PG-13

Copying Beethoven (Widescreen)
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  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: April 3, 2007
  • Originally Released: 2006
  • Label: Mgm (Video & Dvd)

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Rating: 1/5 -- Boring and pointless. Full Review
Daily Mail (UK)
Aug 17, 2007
Amateurishly written, scarcely acted tosh. Full Review
Financial Times
Aug 17, 2007
Rating: B- -- Earnest but lackluster period biopic on the final days of the mentally tortured deaf composer Ludwig von Beethoven. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Nov 19, 2014
Rating: 1/5 -- A fatuous, bafflingly imagined tale of the unhappy and unwell Beethoven and his ordeal in preparing the Ninth Symphony for its premiere. Full Review
Guardian
Aug 17, 2007
Rating: 3/5 -- You can mock this film if you like, but it remains watchable throughout. And the ears have it when the eyes don't.
London Evening Standard
Aug 17, 2007
A great example of that time-honoured genre, the biopic so silly it plays like a spoof. Full Review
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Aug 17, 2007
Rating: 2/5 -- As wooden as a piano stool. Full Review
thelondonpaper
Aug 17, 2007

Product Description:

For her 2006 film, COPYING BEETHOVEN, acclaimed Polish director Agnieszka Holland, crafts a compelling fictionalized account of Ludwig van Beethoven (Ed Harris) as he creates his beloved Ninth Symphony, as seen through the eyes of Anna Holtz (Diane Kruger), a young music student assigned to transcribe his work. Although the thorny deaf composer initially resists Anna's help, the duo eventually form a fruitful relationship that results in one of the world's most spectacular classical pieces.

Holland's first major movie of the 21st century, COPYING BEETHOVEN not only allows the filmmaker to recreate 17th-century Vienna, it reunites her with Harris, who previously starred in her 1999 drama, THE THIRD MIRACLE. As with his portrayal of painter Jackson Pollock (POLLOCK), Harris's simmering on-screen intensity carries the film, with the elegant Kruger subtly serving as his unlikely foil. Although the movie unveils a few subplots, most notably one that involves Beethoven's uncharacteristically affectionate bond with his nephew Karl (Joe Anderson), its sights largely remain on the Ninth Symphony, which is stunningly represented in an extended concert sequence. While COPYING BEETHOVEN doesn't quite reach the cinematic heights of AMADEUS, it does stand out as an exceptionally well-rendered film about classical music and one of its most lauded figures.

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