The Red Violin
by Fran?ois Girard
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Actor: Carlo Cecchi, Christoph Koncz, Greta Scacchi, Jason Flemyng, Jean-Luc BideauDirector: 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
DVD Reviews of The Red Violin
DVD Review: Beautiful movie and beautiful music
Summary: 5 Stars
I 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. DVD Review: Red Violin DVD
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie is in apx four different languages with no translations. It looked like a good movie, but had no clue what was going on. I did notify Amazon and they did a total refund of my money, plus a five dollar credit on my next purchase.DVD Review: pay no attention to the critics ...
Summary: 5 Stars
I LOVE this movie. I barely get by living on disability but I scraped together enough money to buy this movie. I've gotten several people to watch this movie and everyone of them loved it.
The rest of the reviewers have given you the story line so I'll just say this:
The little boy in the orphanage is amazing. I wish I knew more about this little actor.
Jason Flemying is mind blowingly sexy as Fredrick Pope.
The only part I thought a bit slow was when the violin ended up in the middle of China's Cultural Revolution.
Samual Jackson sensitivity toward the violin and what he discovers about it really pulls you in.
Its mentioned that there were gaps (such as when the violin disappeared from a grave and ended up with the gypsy's ... what gap? There was a shot of the grave after it was decimated ... grave robbers! The gypsy's were the grave robbers or they bought/traded something to get the violin from the grave robbers!)
The tarot reading was very interesting and tied the movie together as it slowly reveals the destiny for the red violin. Another reviewer said that only someone sleepy wouldn't figure out why the violin was red ... ::yawn:: well count me in. I was too wrapped up in the movie to catch that and being a writer, I'm usually the one calling out the plots whenever we watch movies but this one caught me by surprise.
This is a wonderful-watch-over-and-over-again-movie.
And did I mention Jason Flemying was sexy?
DVD Review: The history of a musical instrument
Summary: 3 Stars
In the late 1880's to about 1930 the German's produced and shipped a lot of fake Italian violins ( some very badly made).
There are two of these fakes in my family.
This violin makes a history of people who die using it. A young boy
trains so hard he dies when
about to give a recital.
A famous British composer buys it from a band of European gypsies who are camped on his land.
A Chinese girl gets in trouble during the Cultural revolution in China
for having a western instrument.
The instrument isn't as important as the humans who make the music.
DVD Review: Save your MONEY!
Summary: 2 Stars
What a borefest! The story comes together in the last few minutes after following the history of the red violin. Which is long and boring. The only part that was of any interest was why the red violin was red. Now that was cool, its SPOILER ALERT: blood of the creators wife.
Wow, the rest of the story was just terrible! I wish I could get that time I watched the DVD back! Don't waste your money, get it at the library first if you really want to see this one. Its a miss in a huge way.
Description of The Red Violin
Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 05/20/2003 Run time: 132 minutes Rating: RMounted 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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