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03/27/09
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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10/18/08
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08/18/05
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01/28/04
August ... steers this story to its stirring conclusion with firm lack of sentimentality.
07/19/03
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07/16/03
It may sound like a mere disease-of- the-week TV movie, but A Song For Martin is made infinitely more wrenching by the performances of real-life spouses Seldahl and Wollter.
06/06/03
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
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
Director-writer Bille August ... depicts this relationship with economical grace, letting his superb actors convey Martin's deterioration and Barbara's sadness -- and, occasionally, anger.
10/18/02
Full of unforgiving irony and quiet realism, A Song for Martin stands as a powerful and moving achievement.
08/31/02
Top CriticMartin 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
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
More 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 CriticAn 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
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
Top CriticA touching examination of the ravages of Alzheimer's disease.
06/27/02
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