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11/20/08
Copying Beethoven (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 77
Fresh: 20
Rotten:57
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Consensus: A pretentious historical drama that's ultimately a drag, despite Ed Harris' powerful performance.
Synopsis: Classical music aficionado or no, it's tough not to be moved by the soaring notes of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The work stands as both a defining highpoint in the composer's career and... [More]
Starring: Ed Harris, Diane Kruger, Matthew Goode, Phyllida Law
Director: Agnieszka Holland
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Reviews for Copying Beethoven
You can mock this film if you like, but it remains watchable throughout. And the ears have it when the eyes don't.
08/17/07
If the composer's shade could hear the words this script has put in his mouth it really would be a case of "roll over, Beethoven", right there in his grave.
08/17/07
A great example of that time-honoured genre, the biopic so silly it plays like a spoof.
08/17/07
A fatuous, bafflingly imagined tale of the unhappy and unwell Beethoven and his ordeal in preparing the Ninth Symphony for its premiere.
08/17/07
Diane Kruger is the most appealing scenery in this rose-tinted nonsense.
08/17/07
No amount of grandstanding from Harris can animate this turgid mishmash of musical biopic and May-December romance.
08/17/07
Like the wrinkled buttocks he flashes at Kruger, however, this portrait of the artist could use some tightening up.
08/17/07
The direction from Polish New Waver Agnieszka Holland feels more like she’s testing a new camera than attempting to capture the nuances of the artistic process, and if we’re to believe the script, then all great art derives ‘from the gut’.
08/17/07
Brief bursts of passion aside, this is a lifeless facsimile of the great artist's last days.
08/17/07
Does the portrayal stray dangerously close to parody at times? Of course.
07/19/07
Top Critic Enough to keep the interest going -- and one sequence that raises the film to a level many better films never dream of attaining.
06/20/07
Beethoven turns out to be like every obnoxious self-absorbed creative type you've ever met
06/13/07
Top Critic While much of this film is intriguing and nicely performed, it also feels rather strained and corny.
05/31/07
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