The Concert

Weinstein Company, The | Release Date: July 30, 2010

7.3	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 18 Ratings

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NedRyerson1Feb 21, 2012

The Concert seems to be nothing more than a movie about classical music, but it hides a political ideology, the failure and reinvention of communism; and a cultural discrimination, the anti-Semitism.
The story is about a director from anThe Concert seems to be nothing more than a movie about classical music, but it hides a political ideology, the failure and reinvention of communism; and a cultural discrimination, the anti-Semitism.
The story is about a director from an orchestra, who was interrupted in the middle of an important presentation by a government man, because his musicians were Jewish. After some years an opportunity for return to a stage appears, so Filipov and his friends would do the possible and impossible to catch it. In order to complete this, the protagonist must get the help of Anne Marie Jacquet, a well-known violin soloist. The mysterious connection that has the two protagonists is based in what they are looking for, which is the complete harmony, they both want to find who they really are, but he in the path of fulfilling a broken dream, and she by getting the approval of her death parents.
Parallel to this it can be notice the crisis of the communism and its party, that is defend by a few men, one of this is a friend of Filipov, and the thing that he needs to learn, it is that the communism occurs when a group of people work together for reaching an ideal.
The problems of the movie are the weak performances and a script that is not up to this new idea. The things that save this picture are the concepts, the montage and the flashbacks that reveal the story in pieces.… Expand

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mehAug 11, 2010

I found the overall quality of this movie to be neither good nor bad. A general feeling of 'meh' is my take on whether or not the movie is worth watching.

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