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  • 2005
  • M&L Banks
  • 1 h 18 m
  • 2005
  • M&L Banks
  • 1 h 18 m
Finding Eleazar

Summary A feature length documentary which chronicles the journey of international opera star Neil Shicoff as he develops the infamous tenor role of Eléazar from the Grand French opera La Juive. (Millennial Arts Productions)

Directed By: Paula Heil Fisher

Written By: Jody L. Jorgensen, Matthias Visser, Paula Heil Fisher

  • 2005
  • M&L Banks
  • 1 h 18 m
  • 2005
  • M&L Banks
  • 1 h 18 m

Finding Eleazar

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary A feature length documentary which chronicles the journey of international opera star Neil Shicoff as he develops the infamous tenor role of Eléazar from the Grand French opera La Juive. (Millennial Arts Productions)

Directed By: Paula Heil Fisher

Written By: Jody L. Jorgensen, Matthias Visser, Paula Heil Fisher

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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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63% Mixed
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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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38% Positive
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63% Mixed
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80
If Mr. Shicoff ultimately comes across as a short-tempered, egotistical prima donna, the upshot of all the fuss is worth it: his Viennese performance is transcendent.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
70
A bit scattery, but it simmers with Shicoff's intensity in lending his faith and being to the role.
By Stanley Kauffmann FULL REVIEW
63
Her heavy-handed montage of war, civil rights demonstrations, revolutions and KKK gatherings, intercut with Shicoff's delivery of the opera's devastating fourth-act aria, is so amateurish it very nearly succeeds in trivializing the power of his performance.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
50
Because his self-conscious musings are given so much space, it helps to arrive at the movie already awed by Shicoff's talents so you can overlook his (and this dramatically unfocused film's) flaws.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
50
But compared to great documentaries about the process behind performance-"Last Dance" and "Original Cast Album: Company" spring to mind-Finding Eléazar is too choppy and fussy.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
50
Will be of keen interest to fans but plays to the unwashed as cringingly pompous.
By Eddie Cockrell FULL REVIEW
40
Only true opera diehards will appreciate the backstage psychodrama, a catalog aria of the singer's multiple neuroses.
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Production Company Millennial Arts Productions, Peter Rosen Productions
Release Date Sep 16, 2005
Duration 1 h 18 m
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Awards

Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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