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Răpciune
15May11
...life are petty ramifications, impersonal digits to be recorded by anonymous bookkeeping. Seeing this unshattered faith in music, one thinks either of Job or of the musician from Quignard's "Tous les matins du monde". In an effort to redeem life with all its tragic failures, Bach`s music is an arduous plea and a chant of glory, a heretical devotion to form and a recognition of human submissian to divinity. Awesome!
Răpciune
15May11
A huge disappointment for those who seek the explanation of major artistic achievement in the socio-political environment of an age, this beautiful film about music situates its vantage point in the epicentre of Bach`s life: music. Wordless majesty is left to speak alone, with occasional interstices of speech. The shift of perspective is uncompromising: music is the grand watercourse of existence, while events of...
Mike Spence
31Jan10
This is being released on February 22 by New Wave Film, which I guess is connected to Artificial Eye. It's coming with Sicilia and another film for about 20 U.S. dollars. A big score for those of us who were just about to pluck down 70 or 80 bucks for the out of print New Yorker disc of this single film on Amazon.