Copying Beethoven

Name: Copying Beethoven
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Released: November 10, 2006
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 59
Cast: Diane Kruger, Ed Harris, Matthew Goode

2006

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: November 10, 2006 | PG-13

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

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 104 min

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Andrew O'Hehir

Copying 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). Read full review

Stephen Hunter

The movie is completely beguiling, and it delivers joy, the beautiful spark of the gods. Read full review

William Arnold

Has one knockout sequence: the deaf maestro conducting his Ninth Symphony as Anna coaches from the wings. It goes on for what seems a whole reel, but it's so sublime it seems too short and, by itself, could stand as one of the greatest classic music videos ever. Read full review

Carina Chocano

Shot by Ashley Rowe to look like a cross between a Vermeer retrospective and a music video, Copying Beethoven is silly and misguided, if reasonably entertaining for its charming lack of self-awareness, its weakness for lines like "Loneliness is my religion!" and its transcendently beautiful music. Read full review

Michael Rechtshaffen

The picture never successfully comes off the written page. Read full review

James C. Taylor

One is left yearning for the overheated melodrama of Bernard Rose's 1994 Beethoven biopic, "Immortal Beloved," which was trashy, but fun. Read full review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Holland's empurpled bio-fantasy is hooey with an anachronistic feminist slant from start to finish. Read full review

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mariopg

Jun 23, 2013

Sheer pleasure watching films about Beethoven and this is no different. The Anna Holz character was a complete balance to the fiery master. Eccentric he may have been but in the film he uttered some really beautiful words about God. I always believed that geniuses like Beethoven were aSheer pleasure watching films about Beethoven and this is no different. The Anna Holz character was a complete balance to the fiery master. Eccentric he may have been but in the film he uttered some really beautiful words about God. I always believed that geniuses like Beethoven were a channel for the hands of God. I love watching conductors and the Ninth Symphony sequence in the film was such a pleasure to watch, beautifully produced especially Kruger's acting helping the master.… Expand

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SeanM.

Apr 14, 2007

Quite a nice movie about the process of making art. Well worth seeing.