Witches Zombies All Themes. Articles Features Reviews Lists. Watch Online News All Posts. Advanced Search. Facebook Twitter RSS. Flags Adult Situations Suitable for Children. Whatever it is about 19th century composer Robert Schumann and his pianist wife Clara Wieck that fascinates filmmakers, it is a strong enough fascination to prompt a retelling of the Schumanns' lives every few years.
History tells us of the outcome, but we also get the suggestion that Clara's marriage also means the subjugation of her identity to her husband's.
We are told that she became the greatest exponent of Schumann's music, but this sounds like a compromise for someone who could have been the greatest pianist of all time. Hirschmeier's screenplay is full of corny melodrama such as "How will this all end? What do you have? The nothingness. I have the infinity of nothingness which is greater than all things together".
There is also the odd use of "house arrest" described for what we know refer to as a child being grounded. Hirschmeier provides a montage of posters for Clara's concerts, a cut from news of Schumann's inability to marry another female to Clara's performance triumph, a scene where the blind touch Kinski's hands, and a sound edit from orchestral musicians tapping to horses hooves of a moving carriage.
Although this biopic may spare us the Hollywood-ised cliches of composer biopics, where the music is an extension of the artist's life, the treatment here is perhaps too reverential. As Wieck senior, Rolf Hoppe makes someone that could have been played as a villian some nice touches, with Hoppe and Kinski being a more dynamic team than Kinski and Gronemeyer. There is one scene where Kinski sits in Hoppe's lap and we watch the perverse testing of where she will allow his hands to go, in spite of his own humiliation.
Kinski captures the transformation of Clara from gawky teenager to emerging beauty, and whilst there is one shot where we see her hands and body playing the piano, otherwise there is no pretence made that she is performing Clara's pieces.
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How did you buy your ticket? Movie Info. A portrait of 19th-century German composer Robert Schumann, focusing on his relationship with child prodigy Clara Wiek. Peter Schamoni. Gidon Kremer. Nastassja Kinski. Margit Geissler. Wolfgang Greese. Rolf Hoppe. Edda Seippel. Bernhard Wicki. Friedrich W. Marie Colbin. Peter Schamoni Director. View All Critic Reviews 0. See Movies in Theaters. There are no approved quotes yet for this movie.
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