The Silence Before Bach
Shadow Distribution | Release Date: January 30, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
70
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 5 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Unless you are offended by a little female nudity, The Silence Before Bach will shock you not. But it will provide gorgeous lensing and art direction and some of the world's most beautiful music. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Portabella has no interest in conventional biography -- it's hard not to suspect that he included the tale of Felix Mendelsson (Daniel Ligorio) discovering the score for the "St. Matthew Passion" wrapping a meat delivery precisely BECAUSE it's probably apocryphal. Read full review
70
VarietyRonnie Scheib
Arguably stronger conceptually than visually, surreal mix of the unexpected and the banal is definitely not to everybody's taste. But the music is inarguably sublime. Read full review
70
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Not only very civilized--this cool, deliberate film suggests that Bach's music is the quintessence of European civilization. Read full review
70
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
The film demands engagement and a kind of surrender, a willingness to enter into a work shaped by correlation, metaphor and metonymy, by beautiful images and fragments of ideas, a work that locates the music in the twitching of a dog’s ears, in the curve of a woman’s belly, a child’s song and an adult’s reverie. Read full review
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