Customer Reviews:
spanish geniuses give an unforgettable performance.......2006-01-18
Great sound quality and visuals and a tremendous rapport between the audience and the group.Once you have seen and heard La Oreja de van Gogh give this performance you may find yourself agreeing with what a fan says in the extras section of the dvd: "they're
the best." The concert is in Spanish but there are subtitles in English and French for the interviews with the band members.
The accompanying cd has 19 songs on it.
Customer Reviews:
Delicate but rather unsatisfying.......2008-01-25
Great performances & beautifully understated in a way that Hollywood could never match. However, did we ever really understood why Stephan was so cold & distant. I found the atonal 20th century chamber music rather hard to bear. Bach would have sounded so much sweeter. Not a film to lift your spirits of course.
Very unsatisfying.......2007-08-30
Everything above is true about his film and from an intellectual point of view this was a very good film....but it is not a film to lift the spirits. I found the male characters very unlikable and this took some of the enjoyment out of the film for me. I felt as though I had wasted time by watching this film because I was looking for something uplifting and full of hope and this film although well made has neither of these.
Yes, he turns down Emmanuelle Beart.......2007-08-20
"Un Coeur en Hiver" is a very quiet, reflective film set against the background of life in a French violin making workshop. Emmanuelle Beart plays a rising violin playing virtuoso,Camille, who is the girlfriend of the workshop owner Maxime (Andre Dusallier). However she becomes attracted to and falls in love with his taciturn and reserved partner Stephane, played by Daniel Auteuil. Much to her disbelief and annoyance Stephane rejects the beautiful Camille but their (non)relationship leads to a professional rift between the two violin makers and repairers. "Un Coeur en Hiver" is a low key film about an unusual love triangle and Daniel Auteuil's character is a memorable one ;self contained,emotion free and with a winning way of humiliating the ladies. Bravo !
watchable and involving Gallic tristesse (with nice music).......2007-03-10
This is a quiet, very French film about a subtle kind of unhappiness. Maxime and Stephane are violin restorers, working together at the highest level. Maxime plans to marry the almost impossibly beautiful Camille (Emmanuel Beart), a gifted young soloist beginning to make her way in the world of concerts and recordings. Then she is distracted by the strange magnetism of the younger Stephane (Daniel Auteuil) and becomes obsessed by him. But Stephane, though attracted to her, is unable to love her and tells her so. His is the 'coeur en hiver'. Many more things happen, and the film eventually ends with all the main protagonists on good terms, having come to understand each other better, but none fully happy. It's a curiously unmelodramatic, 'grown-up' sort of film, which avoids both the conventional happy and the obvious tragic ending, and I enjoyed it. The acting is first rate, and there has to be a special word for Beart who must mime very complex violin playing and does so with great skill (apart from also lighting up the screen every time she appears). The music - Ravel's Violin Sonata and Piano Trio - adds a good deal of atmosphere to the film and the scenes in the violin restorer's workshops are expertly handled ; it's a convincing film, an unusual one and an enjoyable one.
a magnificent film about love and friendship.......2005-09-11
All the actors in this film give performances of the highest standard.The interaction between Emmanuelle Beart,Daniel Auteuil and Andre Dussollier is electric and this is probably Beart's best ever cinematic performance.Beart has been in Hollywood blockbusters such as Mission Impossible where she seemed awkward and out of place but when you see her in Un Coeur En Hiver speaking her native tongue you will see that she is one of the finest actresses in the business.
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