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07/16/03
A Song for Martin (2002)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:23
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: Grueling but honest depiction about the ravages of Alzheimer's. Yep, it's a downer.
Theatrical Release:Jun 28, 2002 Limited
Synopsis: Danish director Bille August's (PELLE THE CONQUEROR) touching tale is about finding a great love and losing it too quickly. Barbara (Viveka Seldahl), the first violinist in a Swedish philharmonic,... [More]
Starring: Viveka Seldahl, Sven Wollter, Reine Brynolfsson, Lisa Werlinder
Director: Bille August
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01/28/04
An almost unbearably morbid love story.
06/27/02
Top CriticNo review available.
08/18/05
Martin and Barbara are complex characters -- sometimes tender, sometimes angry -- and the delicate performances by Sven Wollter and Viveka Seldahl make their hopes and frustrations vivid.
08/15/02
August ... steers this story to its stirring conclusion with firm lack of sentimentality.
07/19/03
Top CriticNo review available.
08/14/05
An extraordinary Swedish film about the soul adventure of marriage -- the kind of intimate and character-driven film that Bille August does best.
06/28/02
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03/27/09
A wrenching film about a romance between two people in their fifties, shattered when one becomes the victim of Alzheimer's disease.
06/05/02
Often gruelling and heartbreaking to witness, but Seldahl and Wollter's sterling performances raise this far above the level of the usual maudlin disease movie.
02/03/02
It's so downbeat and nearly humorless that it becomes a chore to sit through -- despite some first-rate performances by its lead.
10/18/02
A touching examination of the ravages of Alzheimer's disease.
06/27/02
Painful to watch, but viewers willing to take a chance will be rewarded with two of the year's most accomplished and riveting film performances.
06/11/02
Upsetting and thought-provoking, the film has an odd purity that doesn't bring you into the characters so much as it has you study them.
11/15/02
The strength of the film lies in its two central performances by Sven Wollter as the stricken composer and Viveka Seldahl as his desperate violinist wife.
01/04/02
Top CriticFrom its invitingly upbeat overture to its pathos-filled but ultimately life-affirming finale, Martin is a masterfully conducted work.
01/04/02
Top CriticSeldahl's Barbara is a precise and moving portrait of someone whose world is turned upside down, first by passion and then by illness.
06/25/02
This slow-moving Swedish film offers not even a hint of joy, preferring to focus on the humiliation of Martin as he defecates in bed and urinates on the plants at his own birthday party.
06/28/02
A delightfully simple, splendid love story between two older people ... a journey of life and love you won't want to miss.
08/01/02
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