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Le concert (The Concert)

Le Concert

2009

Radu Mihaileanu

Aleksei Guskov, Mélanie Laurent, Dmitri Nazarov, Valeriy Barinov ...

7.0

11,427

Comedy. Drama Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he learns by accident that the Châtelet Theater in Paris invites the Bolshoi orchestra to play there. He decides to gather together his former musicians and to perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra. As a solo violin player to accompany his ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Natasha Senjanovic The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] echoes the fable-like brilliance of his 'Train of Life,' and once again pokes critical yet always loving fun at what lies behind power, ambition and even failure"	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"Unless you buy 'The Concert’s' nonsensical premise (...) appreciation of this satirical fairy tale is next to impossible"	NEG
United States	Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times	"Mihaileanu keeps this French production flowing buoyantly (...) The film’s stars rise to the occasion admirably"	POS
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"'The Concert's draggy middle section also loses the story’s motivational thrust in a thicket of subplots, and opts for implausible melodrama just when we were starting to feel genuinely moved."	NEG
United Kingdom	Ian Freer Empire	"An enjoyable take on the underdogs genre. And Laurent and the music are sublime (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"There's nothing but lame stereotypes to be found in this duff but well-meaning comedy (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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