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Shirley MacLaine is Madame Sousatzka, an aging piano instructor of Russian extraction. Entrenched in a dilapidated London rooming house, the Madame gives lessons only to the most gifted. She does not stop at mere instruction; Sousatzka insists that her pupils conduct their lives in the same genteel, cultured manner in which she was raised. Her prize student at the moment is an East Indian teenage boy (Navin Chowdhry), who forms a strong and loving bond with the old woman. Director John
PG-13, 2 hr. 2 min.
Oct 14, 1988 Wide
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It's as affectionate, big-hearted and creaky as any film that ever graced Radio City Music Hall, with leisureliness and dime-store philosophizing to match.
An intimate and amusing adaptation of Bernice Rubens' novel.
As charming and fanciful as it is impossible to pigeonhole.
An extraordinary movie that loves music and loves the people it is about, and has the patience to do justice to both.
One of MacLaine's strongest, most colorful roles
[MacLaine's] funny, clever and wondrous to behold, and she carries Madame Sousatzka to heights that might not readily seem warranted by the script, which is composed of elements that might seem overly familiar.
If you ever had a great piano teacher, you will see heragain in this movie. Anne Ellzey was such a teacher in Alabama.
February 18, 2011Well made but just not my cup of herbal tea
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