The direction from Polish New Waver Agnieszka Holland feels more like she's testing a new camera than attempting to capture the nuances of the artistic process, and if we're to believe the script, then all great art derives 'from the gut'.
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Copying Beethoven
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Serving as Ludwig van Beethoven's copyist gives a conservatory student access to the composer's musical genius, but also exposes her to his cruelty.
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Beethoven turns out to be like every obnoxious self-absorbed creative type you've ever met
The movie is completely beguiling, and it delivers joy, the beautiful spark of the gods.
Someday someone will make a great movie about an immortal composer, but for now the best movie about any Beethoven I've ever seen stars a Saint Bernard.
Always an intelligent presence on screen, Harris here embraces the challenge of showing us the man behind the wall of music.
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