The Concert (Le concert) (2010)
Average Rating: 5.9/10
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Fresh: 38 | Rotten: 24
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Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 8
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Twenty-five years after losing his position as the conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra for his refusal to fire the Jewish musicians, a once-famous musical director attempts to stage a late-career comeback. Andreï Semoinovitch Filipov (Aleksei Guskov) was at the top of his game when the Soviet regime ended his career. More than two decades later, he's working as a janitor in the same theater where he once conducted. In his spare time, Andreï and his wife stage mock communist demonstrations to
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Alexei Guskov
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Dmitriy Nazarov
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Mélanie Laurent
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François Berléand
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Guylène de La Rivière... -
Valery Barinov
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Anna Kamenkova Pavlova
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Lionel Abelanski
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Alexandr Komissarov
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"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.
Top Critic"The Concert" is manipulative, overly sentimental, sometimes ludicrous and almost completely irresistible.
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.
The Concert was so unfunny, I had to consult IMDB.com to make sure that it was indeed listed as a comedy.
It ends in a place of transcendent emotion that sends everyone out of the theater in a swirl of transport.
It's as if the movie simmers unevenly for an hour and a half, and suddenly bursts into glorious flame.
The Concert is never quite as meaningful as it makes itself out to be. That's not to say it isn't entertaining and even occasionally moving.
Por su humor absurdo, su emotivo final y el encanto de sus personajes, El Concierto tiene todos los ingredientes para convertirse en la "feel-good-movie" del año.
"The Lives of Others" as seen through the feel-good filter of "Mr. Holland's Opus" - a struggle of creativity against oppression with more of the merrily made music that touchingly triumphs over adversity.
[C]rammed with so much Hollywood feel-good that a studio remake is surely just around the corner... It's all entirely preposterous, and very lovely...
The drama and the comedy often don't fit together, but The Concert is so endlessly good-natured that you keep watching regardless.
I was annoyed by the thickness with which it layers on the schmaltz and the obviousness with which it tells its jokes.
At the end of the concerto, the concert hall resounds with applause, and Gavrilov utters the film's next-to-last word: "Amen." The final word? "Bravo." That's my judgment as well.
Like an overanxious cymbal player, crashing out of control throughout the symphony, there's so much peripheral noise that we can barely hear the music of the piece. But please ... don't play it again, Samski.
It's not often we get to see a true Russian farce.
It's a sweet-natured, agreeable-enough diversion, with just enough high culture, rowdy comic relief and flirtations with historical import that it's comfort food for art-house patrons of a certain age.
A 'Concert' not worth attending.
Amiable enough if underwhelming.
Concert leaves a winning impression. Had the rest of the film matched the closer's sincerity, there might've been something truly remarkable to celebrate here.
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Foreign Titles
- Das Konzert (DE)
- Le Concert (FR)
This film is nice but predictable. The third act reveal is obvious from the first moment, but that doesn't change the fact that some of the clashes of cultures are entertaining. Melanie Laurent is lovely and brings some depth to a cliched role.
Overall, you know what's going to happen at the end, but The Concert is nonetheless not a bad time at the movies.