Thursday, December 16, 2010

The Concert (2009)


The Concert / Le Concert (2009)

Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Starring: Aleksey Guskov, Dmitri Nazarov, Melanie Laurent
Duration: 119 min.
Rating: 7.5/10

Summary:
Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians.  Now a mere cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he learns by accident that the Châtelet Theater in Paris invites the Bolshoi orchestra to play there.  He decides to gather together his former musicians and to perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra.  As a solo violin player to accompany his old Jewish or Gypsy musicians he wants Anne-Marie Jacquet, a young virtuoso.  If they all overcome the hardships ahead this very special concert will be a triumph


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Le Concert directed by Radu Mihaileanu, is nominated for best foreign film at the 2011 Golden Globes.  It is a wonderfully heart warming film set in Moscow and Paris and starring the lovely Melanie Laurent (Dikkenek).  Most impressive is the music and sound which won the film two César awards (French Oscars) for Best Music Written for a Film and Best Sound earlier this year.









5 comments:

Smatch55 said...

the cinematography looks fantastic, and being that it won awwards for the music, this is definitely on my to watch list.

btw, does your blog title mean hello sadness?

Monstermovieblog said...

saw this one, was a real good movie

Bonjour Tristesse said...

Yes, that's what it means. However, I pretty much just picked a random title from a list of my favorite movies.

Das Auto! said...

sounds like the kind of movie i'd watch on a weekday while enjoying a glass of wine. i'll probably check it out, thanks for the recommendation

Rsilver125 said...

wonderful film. very touching.
best part, although improbable actually to really happen, lots of it based on how things are or were done in Russia.
Fantastic acting.
Brought tears.

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