Silence Before Bach (Die Stille vor Bach)
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- Synopsis
- Real-life drama and documentary-style filmmaking blend with surrealistic whimsy in director Pere Portabella's passionate look at the ties between classical music and the construction of contemporary Europe....
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- Director(s)
- Pere Portabella
- MPAA Rating
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 101 min.
Critic Reviews
Variety | Ronnie ScheibAdd Critic to Favorites
Arguably stronger conceptually than visually, surreal mix of the unexpected and the banal is definitely not to everybody's taste. But the music is inarguably sublime.Read the full review
The New York Times | Manohla DargisAdd Critic to Favorites
The film demands engagement and a kind of surrender, a willingness to enter into a work shaped by correlation, metaphor and metonymy, by beautiful images and fragments of ideas, a work that locates the music in the twitching of a dog’s ears, in the curve of a woman’s belly, a child’s song and an adult’s reverie.Read the full review
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