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- 1999
- Not Rated
- Seventh Art Releasing
- 1 h 13 m
- 1999
- Not Rated
- Seventh Art Releasing
- 1 h 13 m
Summary Paola di Florio's documentary focuses on her childhood friend and premiere violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg's performing style and volatile personality from her traumatic childhood through her rise to stardom.
Directed By: Paola di Florio
- 1999
- Not Rated
- Seventh Art Releasing
- 1 h 13 m
- 1999
- Not Rated
- Seventh Art Releasing
- 1 h 13 m
Speaking in Strings
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Summary Paola di Florio's documentary focuses on her childhood friend and premiere violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg's performing style and volatile personality from her traumatic childhood through her rise to stardom.
Directed By: Paola di Florio
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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40% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
40% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
20% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
56
40% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
40% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
20% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
An extraordinarily intimate, deeply affecting and revelatory documentary on how pain and passion can come together in a creative artist.
If it doesn't shed much light on the violinist's personal life, it certainly conveys how personally she relates to her work.
The movie isn't bad, only scattered and incomplete.
The less you know about the world of classical music and, specifically, about one of its more flamboyant denizens, the violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, the less the offense of Speaking in Strings.
What mystifies, too, is the complete absence of information about Salerno-Sonnenberg's private life.
A clumsy labor of love with unforgivable lapses...key footage is missing, and it fails to show why Salerno-Sonnenberg's controversial interpretations are so original and valid.
Conveys little sense of a connection, as if di Florio had made it mainly because she had access to a celebrity.
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Production Company
CounterPoint Films
Release Date Oct 29, 1999
Duration 1 h 13 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Newport International Film Festival, Rhode Island
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
