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03/27/09
A Song for Martin (2002)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:9
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7/10
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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Reviews for A Song for Martin
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Top CriticAugust ... steers this story to its stirring conclusion with firm lack of sentimentality.
07/19/03
Top CriticFull of unforgiving irony and quiet realism, A Song for Martin stands as a powerful and moving achievement.
08/31/02
Top CriticMore honest about Alzheimer's disease, I think, than Iris.
07/19/02
Top CriticViveka Seldahl and Sven Wollter will touch you to the core in a film you will never forget -- that you should never forget.
07/18/02
Top CriticThe movie, for all its sincerity, becomes clinical and repetitious, though its unsparing vision of the fragility of identity can give you a shudder.
07/11/02
Top CriticThis 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
Top CriticMr. Wollter and Ms. Seldhal give strong and convincing performances, but neither reaches into the deepest recesses of the character to unearth the quaking essence of passion, grief and fear.
06/27/02
Top CriticAn almost unbearably morbid love story.
06/27/02
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
Top CriticThe 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 CriticI'm giving it thumbs down due to the endlessly repetitive scenes of embarrassment. There's got to be a more graceful way of portraying the devastation of this disease.
01/03/02
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