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Anja Fahrmann, Christiane Lang, Eckart Bruntjen

A great artist does not necessarily a great husband make. Told through the eyes of Johann Sebastian Bach's widow (Christiane Lang), this unconventional biopic recounts the life of the brilliant compos...( read more  read more... )er, a genius discontented with his marriage. But the real focus of the film is the music; included are extracts from 25 Bach compositions such as the "Brandenburg Concerto No. 5" and "Sonata No. 2 in D Major for Viola and Harpsichord."

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Unrated, 93 min.

Directed by: Daničle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub

Release Date: December 31, 1968

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DVD Release Date: January 17, 2006

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  • kaiijy
    April 27, 2008
    kaiijy
    This one really is from the movement: i saw, you didn't.

    well, i don't want to write a long review, but before watching this you must know that this is different than any other movie you ever watched. The movie will end and you will ask yourself: "what the hell i just saw?"

    the...( read more)n you will start thinking and you'll remember that the movie is about Bach, this is the beginning, but why that camera that never moves? That cruel cuts between scenes? That plans without faces almost all the time?

    Well, when you talk about Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach you must remember that the cinema has resources to bring the watcher to the screen, to make him closer to the character and that's what CoAMB has of different: the distance.

    you know Bach's face, you know his wife's face, she's the narrator of the story, fully of names that you, probably, won't give a face. The camera does not move (just in a few moments), and when it does isn't to get closer to Bach, as example, but to film the singer.

    All the resources that the cinema offers to bring the watcher are denied by Straub and Huillet to give emphasis to the music. There's no intimacy, no feelings in the edition, neither in the characters.

    See the poster here?

    "A Masterpiece. This Film is Music"

    it could not explain better by another way.

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