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MPAA Rating: R
Director: François Girard
Genre: Romantic Drama, Period Film, Musical Drama, Drama
Release Date: June 11, 1999 (USA)
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Summary:
Francois Girard directed this drama tracing the history of a musical instrument through five countries and three centuries. In 1681, to keep the spirit of his wife alive, an Italian paints the violin with a red varnish made from her blood. It is later found in the Austrian Alps when a prodigy gives a performance in the court of Vienna in 1792. Take... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Samuel L. Jackson - (Charles Morritz)
Don McKellar - (Evan Williams)
Carlo Cecchi - (Nicolo Bussotti)
Irene Grazioli - (Anna Bussotti)
Jean-Luc Bideau - (Georges Poussin)
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Review:
A fascinating and intensely romantic film on the universality of the hunger for beauty, Francois Girard's film displays a taste for novel structures evinced in his previous work 32 Films About Glenn Gould. Using an auction in contemporary Montréal as ... Continue >>

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