A perfect red-colored violin inspires passion, making its way through three centuries over several owners and countries, eventually ending up at an auction where it may find a new owner.
Director: François Girard
Stars: Carlo Cecchi, Jean-Luc Bideau, Christoph Koncz, Samuel L. Jackson.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120802/
Watched on AmazonPrime. (Finally, a decent movie there.)
1 song in the Soundtracks, much more played and by cast members (some doubled by Jason Bell's left hand).
Interesting tale, told well, with lots of professional actors I don't recognize (but this is a Canadian production, partially US funded, plus 3 more countries of origin).
It was annoying to spend most of the film reading subtitles, because the dialog was spoken in the country where the segment was located. So when the violin was being created in Italy, everyone spoke Italian. When its ownership transferred to Germany, both German and French were spoken, Mandarin in China and English in England and North America.
The ending seemed premature, because the next chapter of the violin seems it should be fraught with tension.
Repeating the auction between each segment was, I feel, unnecessarily time-consuming. Yes, it connected a new bidder to the segment we had just seen, but only in an ancestral way; we didn't actually learn anything about the bidder themself (with 1 exception, and that was still very little).
Glad to have a Music film where good classical music was played.
Rated 7.7 (29,323)
distr. Lions Gate, dir. Girard; 7
