Finding Eleazar

Name: Finding Eleazar
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 16, 2005
Duration: 78 min
Rating: 55

2005

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M&L Banks | Release Date: September 16, 2005

Summary: A feature length documentary which chronicles the journey of international opera star Neil Shicoff as he develops the infamous tenor role of Eléazar from the Grand French opera La Juive. (Millennial Arts Productions)

Director: Paula Heil Fisher

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 78 min

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Stephen Holden

If Mr. Shicoff ultimately comes across as a short-tempered, egotistical prima donna, the upshot of all the fuss is worth it: his Viennese performance is transcendent. Read full review

Stanley Kauffmann

A bit scattery, but it simmers with Shicoff's intensity in lending his faith and being to the role. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

Her heavy-handed montage of war, civil rights demonstrations, revolutions and KKK gatherings, intercut with Shicoff's delivery of the opera's devastating fourth-act aria, is so amateurish it very nearly succeeds in trivializing the power of his performance. Read full review

Frank Scheck

A promotional video masquerading as a documentary. Read full review

Noel Murray

But compared to great documentaries about the process behind performance-"Last Dance" and "Original Cast Album: Company" spring to mind-Finding Eléazar is too choppy and fussy. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Because his self-conscious musings are given so much space, it helps to arrive at the movie already awed by Shicoff's talents so you can overlook his (and this dramatically unfocused film's) flaws. Read full review

Jorge Morales

Only true opera diehards will appreciate the backstage psychodrama, a catalog aria of the singer's multiple neuroses. Read full review

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