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In una casa per musicisti in pensione, il concerto annuale per celebrare il compleanno del compositore Giuseppe Verdi è interrotto dall'arrivo di Jean, un'eterna diva ed ex moglie di uno dei... Leggi tuttoIn una casa per musicisti in pensione, il concerto annuale per celebrare il compleanno del compositore Giuseppe Verdi è interrotto dall'arrivo di Jean, un'eterna diva ed ex moglie di uno dei residenti.In una casa per musicisti in pensione, il concerto annuale per celebrare il compleanno del compositore Giuseppe Verdi è interrotto dall'arrivo di Jean, un'eterna diva ed ex moglie di uno dei residenti.
- Premi
- 4 vittorie e 5 candidature
Gwyneth Jones
- Anne Langley
- (as Dame Gwyneth Jones)
Trama
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- BlooperWhile Reggie is playing croquet with Wilf, his pocket handkerchief and shirt buttons suddenly swap sides, indicating a flipped shot.
- Curiosità sui creditiAs the final credits roll, photos of each of the supporting cast members of retired musicians is shown beside a picture of them during their performing careers.
- ConnessioniFeatured in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episodio #21.72 (2013)
- Colonne sonoreLibiamo ne'lieti calici (Brindisi)
from "La Traviata: Act 1"
Composed by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
Orchestral arrangement by Carmen Dragon
Performed by Danish Nation Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by James Morgan
Courtesy of The Decca Music Group
By arrangement with Dragon Music Co.
Under license by Universal Music Operations Ltd.
Recensione in evidenza
What remarkable good fortune that Dustin Hoffman chose this Ronald Harwood play (and screenplay) for his directorial debut at age 75. This is a movie for actors, and there are many terrific performances in this wonderful ensemble piece about the residents of a home for aging musicians, which we saw at our movie preview club.
But the warmth of the story - the vibrancy of the seniors playing string quartets and practicing their cellos and clarinets, their friendships, annoyances, disappointments, and even loves - marks this film as something very special.
Hoffman has taken a beautiful English estate and turned it into a world of music filled with well-drawn and compelling characters: the woman with advancing dementia who relishes the CD of her performing Rigoletto 40 years ago; the flirtatious Wilf, whose "advances" towards the women on staff are never offensive and always charming; the aging diva - the always wonderful Maggie Smith - who is horrified by the thought that by moving in her life is over.
The best drawn (and in my mind, played) character is Wilf's best friend Reggie, who doesn't get Wilf's preferential treatment but has a quiet dignity and love of his life and his art that quietly shines through. His scene teaching students by comparing opera and rap may be this film's best.
Reggie is played by one of the most underrated and powerful British actors of his time, the estimable Tom Courtenay. It's hard to believe it's been 50 years since he starred as a 25-year-old in The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner. In a performance of grace, nuance, and elegance, Courtenay outshines even Maggie Smith. Perhaps he's inspired by working again from a Harwood screenplay; it was Harwood who wrote The Dresser, an excellent 1983 vehicle for Courtenay and Albert Finney.
One more note: Finney was apparently supposed to play the Wilf role, but unfortunately was not up to it health-wise. But comedian Billy Connolly's performance is just splendid.
See this movie!
But the warmth of the story - the vibrancy of the seniors playing string quartets and practicing their cellos and clarinets, their friendships, annoyances, disappointments, and even loves - marks this film as something very special.
Hoffman has taken a beautiful English estate and turned it into a world of music filled with well-drawn and compelling characters: the woman with advancing dementia who relishes the CD of her performing Rigoletto 40 years ago; the flirtatious Wilf, whose "advances" towards the women on staff are never offensive and always charming; the aging diva - the always wonderful Maggie Smith - who is horrified by the thought that by moving in her life is over.
The best drawn (and in my mind, played) character is Wilf's best friend Reggie, who doesn't get Wilf's preferential treatment but has a quiet dignity and love of his life and his art that quietly shines through. His scene teaching students by comparing opera and rap may be this film's best.
Reggie is played by one of the most underrated and powerful British actors of his time, the estimable Tom Courtenay. It's hard to believe it's been 50 years since he starred as a 25-year-old in The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner. In a performance of grace, nuance, and elegance, Courtenay outshines even Maggie Smith. Perhaps he's inspired by working again from a Harwood screenplay; it was Harwood who wrote The Dresser, an excellent 1983 vehicle for Courtenay and Albert Finney.
One more note: Finney was apparently supposed to play the Wilf role, but unfortunately was not up to it health-wise. But comedian Billy Connolly's performance is just splendid.
See this movie!
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- 16 dic 2012
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- Data di uscita
- Paesi di origine
- Sito ufficiale
- Lingue
- Celebre anche come
- Cuatro notas de amor
- Luoghi delle riprese
- Hedsor House & Park, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, Inghilterra, Regno Unito(as Beecham House, main location)
- Aziende produttrici
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- Budget
- 11.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 18.390.117 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 47.122 USD
- 13 gen 2013
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 59.520.298 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 38 minuti
- Colore
- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 2.35 : 1
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