Fresh
"The Concert" builds beautifully from a farcical premise that requires a suspension of disbelief to a musical climax that washes away our cynicism in a wave of honest tears.
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Concert
The grand deception that became the performance of a lifetime.
2009 · 1h 59m · PG-13
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Radu Mihăileanu
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The Concert
Overview
A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoï orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for hiring Jewish musicians and now works cleaning the concert hall where he once directed. One day, he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet. Through a series of mad antics, he reunites his old orchestra, now composed of old alcoholic musicians, and flies to perform in Paris and complete the Tchaikovsky concerto interrupted 30 years earlier. For the concerto, he engages a young violin soloist with whom he has an unexpected connection.
Director and cast
- Radu Mihăileanu Director
- Aleksey Guskov as Andrey Simonovich Filipov
- Mélanie Laurent as Anne-Marie Jacquet
- Dmitri Nazarov as Aleksandr 'Sasha' Abramovich Grosman
- François Berléand as Olivier Morne Duplessis
- Miou-Miou as Guylène de La Rivière
- Lionel Abelanski as Jean-Paul Carrère
- Valeriy Barinov as Ivan Gavrilov
- Sara Martins as Secretaire Duplessis
- Laurent Bateau as Bertrand
- Vlad Ivanov Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
61%
Tomatometer
Fresh
"The Concert" is manipulative, overly sentimental, sometimes ludicrous and almost completely irresistible.
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
Rotten
Benefits from clever editing and a credible cinematic representation of the ineffable power of music to ignite the human spirit. Sadly, the magic is way too long in the making.
Greg Quill, Toronto Star
Rotten
The Concert was so unfunny, I had to consult IMDB.com to make sure that it was indeed listed as a comedy.
Rachel Saslow, Washington Post
Fresh
It ends in a place of transcendent emotion that sends everyone out of the theater in a swirl of transport.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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