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Mozart's Sister

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Original title

Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart (Mozart's Sister)

Year

2010

Running time

115 min.

Country

France

Director

René Féret

Screenwriter

René Féret

Cast

Music

Marie-Jeanne Serrero

Cinematography

Benjamín Echazarreta

Producer

Les Films Alyne, Région Ile-de-France, CNC, Région Limousin

Genre

Drama | Biography. Costume Drama. 18th Century. Music

Synopsis

Nannerl is the older sister of the famous composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A prodigious child, she is presented with her brother at all the courts of Europe. At Versailles, she meets the son of Louis XV, who encourages her to write music. But Nannerl is a girl and, in this enlightened era, a girl is not permitted to be a composer.

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Awards: 2011: Festival de Las Palmas: Lady Harimaguada Silver; Best Actress (Marie & Lise Féret)

2011: Satellite Awards: 3 nominations, including Best Foreign Film

2010: Montréal World Film Festival: Official Selection

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Critics' reviews

"Marie Féret struggles to hold the film's center throughout, but there's more than enough to distract us, from transcendent music to sumptuous costumes and sets."

Elizabeth Weitzman: Time Out
"Alive with exuberantly thesped personages and awash in the joy and power of music, the picture is a stunner."

Ronnie Scheib: Variety
"A handsome and achingly sad period piece, a finely observed portrait of cast-aside dreams. The drama is quieter and more chaste than the similarly themed 'Camille Claudel,' but no less haunting."

Sheri Linden: The Hollywood Reporter
"For everything that Mozart's Sister imagines, it leaves much more up to imagination."

Eric Kohn: IndieWire
"Mr. Féret's film is ardent in its inventions, modest in scale, playful in its speculations about Nannerl's influence on her brother's music, and graced by the filmmaker's daughter, Marie Féret, in the title role."

Joe Morgenstern: The Wall Street Journal
"The music, of course, resonates. And so does this exquisite heartbreaker of a story."

Steven Rea: Philadelphia Inquirer
"The object isn't to stir you into what-if feminist outrage so much as to let a culturally magnificent era's societal inequalities act as a dissonant countermelody to a famous artist's biography."

Robert Abele: Los Angeles Times
"Mozart's Sister feels like a rococo reverie. The film was shot inside Versailles, which borders on the best sensory overload when you factor in the gorgeous classical soundtrack."

Stephanie Merry: The Washington Post

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