{"id":4972,"date":"2009-07-31T12:14:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T20:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=4972"},"modified":"2009-07-31T14:20:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T22:20:04","slug":"immortal-beloved-bernard-rose-1994-ukusa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=4972","title":{"rendered":"Immortal Beloved (Bernard Rose, 1994): UK\/USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy<\/a>. Viewed on DVD.<\/p>\n

\"\"There is a sub-genre to the traditional\u00a0musical and it is the composer bio-pic such as Charles Vidor’s A Song To Remember (1945) or more recently Milos Forman’s Amadeus (1984).\u00a0 These films do not\u00a0employ\u00a0singing and dancing to draw an audience into the story, but rely heavily on the composer’s music to affect the audience’s emotions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since not all musicals are created equal there are some that have fallen in the cracks of film history.\u00a0 Immortal Beloved<\/a><\/em> is one such film.\u00a0 \u00a0It is however a moving portrait of the life of Ludwig Van Beethoven set entirely\u00a0to his music, with Gary Oldman bringing to life\u00a0this enigmatic genius.<\/p>\n

Many will remember Oldman from the highly over-rated\u00a0Christopher Nolan Batman films or the equally commercial Harry Potter films, but it is Oldman’s sensitive interpretation which makes this film so\u00a0unique, yet under-rated.<\/p>\n

Upon Beethoven’s death a note was discovered in his personal papers addressed to his “immortal beloved.”\u00a0 The plot of the film involves Beethoven’s friend and personal secretary Anton Schindler\u00a0 played by Jeroen Krabbe, who sets out on a quest to discover the composer’s true love.\u00a0 There were several women involved\u00a0in Beethoven’s life, one of which is Countess Erdody portrayed by Isabella Rossellini, who brings her own special warmth to the role.<\/p>\n

According to the film Beethoven suffered an abusive father, he cared for his younger siblings, and was subjected to cruelty.\u00a0 He was hard of hearing at a young age, which eventually\u00a0led to deafness,\u00a0and like all geniuses was grossly misunderstood.<\/p>\n

There are many flashbacks as Beethoven is described from various character’s perspective.\u00a0 The finale of the\u00a0film is equally \u00a0triumphant and heartbreaking,\u00a0and\u00a0appropriately edited to the piece Ode To Joy that’s not to be missed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Immortal Beloved was meticulously written and directed by Bernard Rose and\u00a0released ten years after the enormous popularity of Amadeus, yet somehow was overlooked and forgotten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy. Viewed on DVD. There is a sub-genre to the traditional\u00a0musical and it is the composer bio-pic such as Charles Vidor’s A Song To Remember (1945) or more recently Milos Forman’s Amadeus (1984).\u00a0 These films do not\u00a0employ\u00a0singing and dancing to draw an audience into the story, but rely heavily on the composer’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvd","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}