A famous pianist struggling with stage fright late in his career finds inspiration with a free-spirited music critic.A famous pianist struggling with stage fright late in his career finds inspiration with a free-spirited music critic.A famous pianist struggling with stage fright late in his career finds inspiration with a free-spirited music critic.
- Photographer
- (as Victor Andres Trelles Turgeon)
- Maya
- (as Laetitia Brookes)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaPatrick Stewart had a body double for the close up shots of him playing piano since he has bad arthritis.
- Quotes
[opening lines]
[voiceover]
Helen Morrison: Nietzsche famously said that without music, life would be a mistake. German philosophers tend to exaggerate. But he did have a point. I know that without music my own life would've been incomplete in some fundamental way. Like if I'd had no friends or no memories. I even tried to be a pianist for a while until I realized just how fragile piano playing really is. Especially in front of 2,000 people.
- Crazy creditsChristoph Gaugler is credited twice as Felix, as the main cast as well as supporting cast.
What is amazing is the way music is interconnected with the story, how is not only an ambiental music, but a kind of companion and most of the time it gives a clarity to the scenes. Is like a movie inside the movie, but full of sound, full of stories, full of meaning.
This is a film that only could be the way it is: slowly, meditative, almost poetic, against the hurries and rushes from today cultural mainstream. A very beautiful and meaningful film that deserves a better qualification on IMDB, but I guess many of the reviewers doesn't understand the nuances and little twists here and there, and less about classical music, so at least they loss a half of the meaning of the movie when the doesn't get that message. I'm pretty sure that many reviewers doesn't know anything about classical music, so probably they only identifies the first piece of music when are transcurred 24 minutes, and many other pieces were played and telling things they don't understand.
So, this is not a film for people immerse on today's pop culture.
- jmrecillas-83435
- May 5, 2021
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Details
Box office
- Budget
- CA$2,800,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $2,601,649
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1