a composition in five movements. Although the primary theme (the violin) ties all the segments together, it is but a thin string.
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The Red Violin (1998)
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Fresh:27
Rotten:11
Average Rating:7.1/10
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Reviews for The Red Violin
Like a blending of great symphony and great cinema, The Red Violin is a magnum opus of musical-visual composition.
01/01/00
A spiritually rich and musically sublime drama about the soulful dimensions of beauty.
03/05/02
Its individual pieces interlock smoothly as a whole.
01/01/00
It is disconcerting to see {Jackson}...after watching his exceptional performances as crazy criminals in two Quentin Tarantino movies.
07/02/04
The story lines, while having little direct connection to historical events, are obviously grounded in musical and artistic legend.
10/07/04
A good score can only do so much and, too often here, it is undercut by an overly sentimental story.
01/01/00
A sensual pleasure to hear, and to watch the film on screen... an intellectual pleasure to mull the complex themes afterwards. This is filmmaking of the highest order.
01/01/00
entertains with fanciful fable and contains beautiful virtuoso violin solos (by Joshua Bell) and location shooting, but offers little substance
07/02/03
Derided by some contrarian critics for being "safe", this is an ambitious and at times uneven epic that stretches several continents and centuries . . .
05/25/03
If the movie didn't pat itself on the back so often for being arty, than it might come off as an interesting, if flawed film.
01/01/00
If you see it, it should be only for the wonderful solo violin of Joshua Bell.
01/01/00
Girard invests each episode of this production with dramatic credibility and emotional strength.
01/01/00
François Girard ... with co-writer Don McKellar and an able cast, has spun a yarn that crosses all manner of boundaries: geographic, artistic, and taste.
10/10/04
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