Copying Beethoven
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 20 Ratings
- Starring: Diane Kruger, Ed Harris, Matthew Goode
- Summary: In this romantic period piece set in Vienna, a young music student and aspiring composer (Kruger) accepts a job as a copyist for Ludwig von Beethoven (Harris) as he works to complete his latest symphony.
- Director: Agnieszka Holland
- Genre(s): Drama, History, Music
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Positive: 9 out of 20
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Mixed: 9 out of 20
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Negative: 2 out of 20
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80Copying Beethoven has an ace up its sleeve: the wonder and drama of the Ninth Symphony itself (heard here in Bernard Haitink's tremendous 1996 recording with the Royal Concertgebouw).
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80Topped with that messy salt-and-pepper wig that frames and obscures his scowling, searching face, [Harris] invests Beethoven with a violent turbulence that sometimes floods the room but mostly stays coiled inside, where it seethes.
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Screenwriters Stephen J. Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson, best known for the two ponderous biopics "Ali" and "Nixon," deliver a film awkwardly composed.
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38Harris can be a brilliant actor, and there are flashes of that here. But he's done in by a script that lacks any subtlety.
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Positive: 10 out of 13
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EduardoP.10Great movie, wonderful argument.
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SeanM.10Quite a nice movie about the process of making art. Well worth seeing.
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MichaelE8Captures the essence of Beethoven along with a stirring performance of his ninth symphony.
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NickB.3
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