В газете New York Times появился отзыв о фильме.
Элин, если не к месту, удаляй, плиз.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/movie … iopic.html
"Even if, like me, you’re a sucker for men with tossable hair and precision eyeliner, you can’t help noticing that “The Devil’s Violinist” is hysterical — and possibly historical — hooey. More bodice-ripper than biopic, this German-Austrian coproduction about the life of the Italian violinist Niccolò Paganini is so magnificently misjudged that it almost defies description.
Set mainly in 1830 as Paganini (played by the German musician David Garrett, a wizard on the strings but a dead loss as an actor) is poised to conquer London, the movie surrounds him with hammy caricatures. Leading the pack are a creepy manager (Jared Harris, sucking on his lines as if they were toffees and all but twirling his mustache) and a mannish journalist for The Times of London (Joely Richardson, shoveling on the Cockney accent). As Paganini fiddles his way from Dickensian tavern to Covent Garden, frenzied women follow, either protesting or swooning over his believed Devil-derived talent. Maybe that’s why, when not in the sack, he sidles around like a hunted gazelle.
The writer and director, Bernard Rose, ventured down a similar path 21 years ago with the soaring Beethoven biography “Immortal Beloved,” another lathered-up blend of melodrama and musicianship. But that film had Gary Oldman as its fulcrum and the wonderful Peter Suschitzky as its cinematographer; this one has only a void at its center and uninspired images that Mr. Rose photographed himself, mostly in and around Vienna and on studio sets. The result is a shallow commentary on how an artist’s talent can be subsumed by the desire for fame and fortune. Or maybe just by the need to make a movie."
By JEANNETTE CATSOULISJAN. 29, 2015
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