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Rose's Beethoven biopic is something of a Europudding, a stodgy concoction of clashing accents and performance styles. Nov 16, 2014 | Full Review…
Rose's Beethoven biopic is something of a Europudding, a stodgy concoction of clashing accents and performance styles.
Jason Best
I doubet whether Rose's speculative and overwroght chronicle of Beethoven will rekindle interest in the composer's life and work in the same way that Amadeus did for Mozart. Dec 12, 2006 | Rating: C | Full Review…
I doubet whether Rose's speculative and overwroght chronicle of Beethoven will rekindle interest in the composer's life and work in the same way that Amadeus did for Mozart.
Emanuel Levy
A little slow, but overall a good film. Sep 28, 2005 | Rating: 3/5
A little slow, but overall a good film.
Alex Sandell
completely nuts! Nov 8, 2004 | Rating: 3/5
completely nuts!
Rich Cline
Imitation Ken Russell biopic lacking in power and a feel for the music. Sep 27, 2004 | Rating: 2/5
Imitation Ken Russell biopic lacking in power and a feel for the music.
Ken Hanke
As writer and director, Bernard Rose must take full responsibility for the fictions masquerading as fact in his treatment of Beethoven's life and loves. Aug 17, 2004 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
As writer and director, Bernard Rose must take full responsibility for the fictions masquerading as fact in his treatment of Beethoven's life and loves.
S. James Wegg
real coup is the perfect casting of consummate chameleon actor Gary Oldman as Beethoven. Apr 23, 2004 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
real coup is the perfect casting of consummate chameleon actor Gary Oldman as Beethoven.
John A. Nesbit
Haunting use of Beethoven's music. Oct 9, 2002 | Rating: 3/5
Haunting use of Beethoven's music.
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Strains to evoke tortured artist agony, but instead just strains. Sep 12, 2002 | Rating: 2/5
Strains to evoke tortured artist agony, but instead just strains.
Audrey Rock-Richardson
Passionate and transfixing scereen biography of Ludwig van Beethoven. Aug 30, 2002 | Full Review…
Passionate and transfixing scereen biography of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Gary Oldman is absolutely phenomenal here as Ludwig van Beethoven but the supporting cast is a bit overacted or sometimes wooden and fake. The film itself is a little confusing and slow but it's easy to forget that when you're wrapped up in the mystery, and when watching Oldman give a tour de force performance, and listening to the magnificent music of Beethoven.
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Immortal Beloved is an incredible biopic about one of the most famed composers who ever lived. Gary Oldman is the perfect choice to play composer Ludwig Van Beethoven. He brought such charisma to his performance that it's a shame he didn't win an Oscar. I thought he was excellent in the role. Immortal Beloved is a well crafted picture that focuses on the life of Beethoven, and with Gary Oldman's incredible performance, it adds so much to this already impressive film. Whenever a filmmaker decides to tells an artists story on film, it can be either bad or goo. But like Amadeus before it, Immortal Beloved has the distinction of being an incredible and memorable film about another famous composer. The film is different than Amadeus, but it still manages to be just as grand as that film was. Because after all, Beethoven wasn't a forgettable person. Director Bernard Rose did a fine job at bringing Beethoven's life to the screen, and with this cast; he's able to convey a near flawless piece of cinema to the screen. Immortal Beloved is a beautifully acted and told film that has a wonderful story. This is a film for people who admire Beethoven and for Classical music fans everywhere. As of yet, this is the best biopic on Beethoven's life that I have seen, and with Gary Oldman in the lead role, it will be very hard to find someone to outdo his performance. A truly engaging picture.
How to depict "genius"? Yes, there are the achievements ... but why? This movie goes with love as the motivating factor that drove perhaps the world's most renowned composer, the Einstein of music, Beethoven. Oldman, no slouch artist himself, is magnetic as a soul slowly losing that which is most to him in this captivating mystery that attempts to define the undefinable. A worthy effort.
I enjoyed this one immensely Gary Oldman has such depth and range that he disappears into his characters. It doesn't matter if he's playing Count Dracula or Sid Vicious or Ludwig Van Beethoven, I'm never consciously aware that I'm watching an imitation. He's just that good.
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