Basic
Info
Title:
Le Concert
Genre:
Comedy, Drama
Country:
France, Belgium, Italy, Romania, Russia
Language:
French, Russian
Running
time: 119 minutes
Release
date: September 2009 (Russia), 4 November 2009
(France)
Staff
Director:
Radu Mihăileanu
Producer:
Alain Attal
Written
by: Radu Mihăileanu,
Héctor Cabello Reyes, Thierry Degrandi, Matthew Robbins, Alain-Michel Blanc
Music:
Armand Amar, Tchaikovsky
Cinematography:
Laurent Dailland
Edited
by: Ludo Troch
Cast
Aleksei Guskov as Andreï Filipov
Mélanie Laurent as Anne-Marie
Jacquet
Dmitry Nazarov as Sacha Grossman
Valeri Barinov as Ivan Gavrilov
François Berléand as Olivier Morne
Duplessis
Miou-Miou as Guylène de La Rivière
Lionel Abelanski as Jean-Paul
Carrère
Summary
“Le Concert” is a 2009 French comedy-drama film starring Aleksei Guskov and Mélanie Laurent and directed by Radu Mihăileanu. The film won the Best Original Score and Best Sound awards at César Awards 2010. It was also nominated for two Magritte Awards in the category of Best Film in Coproduction and Best Editing for Ludo Troch in 2011, and Best Foreign Film at the 68th Golden Globe Awards.
Plot
Andrey Filipov, who was a former conductor of the world-famous Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, was deprived of his position as a conductor by rebelling against Leonid Brezhnev's order to protect the Jewish musicians in his orchestra. He becomes an alcoholic while working as a janitor in the theater where he once served as a conductor.
One day, while cleaning his boss's office, he sees and intercepts an official invitation from the famous Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, which invited the Bolshoi Theatre orchestra to replace a concert of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, which was canceled at the last minute. Filipov plans to rebuild his former orchestra by bringing old Jewish and Gypsy musicians together, members of his former orchestra who are now working as movers or taxi drivers to make a living. The plan is to perform in Paris and complete a performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, which was interrupted 30 years earlier by former KGB Agent Ivan Gavrilov.
Filipov demands several conditions to the Châtelet, which has no choice but to accept their conditions, since the concert with the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra are much cheaper than other orchestras. One of the conditions is that the solo violinist must be Anne-Marie Jacquet, who became famous for having never played Tchaikovsky's violin concerto because she is afraid of it.
She has long dreamed of playing it with the Bolshoi Orchestra, and especially with Filipov, whose fame has not declined outside Russia. Guylène de La Rivière, her agent and adoptive mother, is reluctant to allow that because she knows about Filipov and his past well, but Anne-Marie insists and eventually Riviere accepts the offer... (Continue)
Movie
Review
“Amazing movie about
music”
“Beautifully sad and funny
altogether”
“Simple and excellent”
“A Film not only for Movie
Lovers, but Mainly for Music Lovers”
“Food for the soul”
“Wonderful movie”
“A Harmonious Confession”
“Complete, superb!”
“Excellent movie, an
exciting combination of sound and storytelling”
Interesting
stories about the film
For her performance, Mélanie
Laurent studied violin for five months with Sarah Nemtanu of the Orchestre
National de France. In the film’s concert scene, since she learned all the bow
movements, her bowing was always accurate. However, her left hand was digitally
added or replaced during the editing process in post-production.
Thank you.
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