Copying Beethoven (2006)
- 6.8
- 1h 44min
- Biography, Drama, Music
- 2007-03-08 (USA)
Storyline
Vienna, 1824. In the days before the first performance of the Ninth Symphony, Beethoven needs help with copying out the charts, so a promising student of composition, Anna Holtz, 23, is sent to assist him. She not only aids the transcription of the notes, she provides guidance from the orchestra pit as Beethoven conducts the work's debut. During the next two years, the final ones of Beethoven's life, Anna provides assistance to the deaf, temperamental, ailing man. In return, he tutors her in composition and explains to her the ideas and principles of Romanticism. He tries to speak for God.
Plot Keywords
drinking, drink, drunkenness, catholic, crying, tears, vienna austria, older man younger woman relationship, homosexual subtext, teacher student relationship, string quartet, singer, quartet, orchestra conductor, rehearsal, prologue, flashback, borrowing money, debt, prostitute
Short Review
You can mock this film if you like, but it remains watchable throughout. And the ears have it when the eyes don't.
