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Caroline Cellier, Elsa Zylberstein, Enrico Lo Verso, Jeroen Krabbé, Stefano Dionisi
The performer known as Farinelli, born Carlo Broschi (and played in this film by Stefano Dionisi), was famous in the 18th century as the world's greatest castrato, a male singer whose testicles were r...( read more
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The colourful and uninhibited life of "il castrato" Farinelli and his brother Riccardo Broschi, two men who shared their music and their women. An operatic biopic with impressive production values and a dreamy score. Not as big as Milos Forman's Amadeus, but still, a picture with...( read more)
Que buena película, que hermosas voces y que triste vida, la belleza y el dolor pueden ir de la mano
Love time pieces. Oh to have been there in that time...Great music...
Beautiful, lush, sumptuous...all words that can be used to describe various aspects of this film. My only issue would be that the love between Farinelli and the woman who would later be his wife was barely explored at all - they go from arguing and ignoring each other to later li...( read more)
Le hubiera dado las 5 de no ser por que la historia se aleja mucho de la realidad. Aun asi me gusta mucho y la recomiendo.
want to see this because it won best foreign-language film at the golden globes
Grna música, gran historia, y una muy interesante y peculiar manera de llevar el drama a lugares inhóspitos dónde lazos tan fuertes como la hermandad puedan provocar la redención de un hecho que para algunos pueda ser imperdonable
