Immortal Beloved

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Huntin P @PaxVobiscum80 Sep 20, 2026 Impressive composer biopic, with a magisterial Beethoven from Gary Oldman. The scene where he plays the Moonlight Sonata for the first time! And such emotion at the first performance of the Ode to Joy. See more Nelson M @RT52233376 Aug 18, 2026 As a huge Beethoven fan I was looking forward to seeing this. What a disappointment. It's slow, clumsy, contrived and concentrates mostly on a mostly fictious scenario. Meanwhile, the most facinating elements of Beethovens life are ignored. This is a prime example of a director trying so hard to take a fresh angle and ignore cliche's that he misses the opportunity to tell a good story. See more thiago s @Thiagostone Aug 23, 2025 Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom See more Rapha T @RT85546781 Nov 28, 2024 The movie is The Best for my opinion,because this movie is a tribute to Beethoven,The soundtrack is pretty! See more John W @Magnumman Sep 2, 2024 Severely underrated! This is one of those movies that is unforgettable for its passion and soul, even if it doesn't always work. Some of the dialogue and acting is a bit stilted (though that's not true of Rossellini, Oldman, or Ter Steege, who are all great). But I'll take this any time over the more pretentious and less entertaining "Amadeus" (the obvious comparison from around the same time). I rewatched it after years last night, fell in love with it again, and appreciated more than ever how well it seems to capture Beethoven's personality, his follies and tragedies, and the innovative nature of his music. The "Ode to Joy" sequence might be the most moving filmic depiction of someone transcending suffering through art that I've ever seen. And the tragic love story is really gripping, even if there seems to be little basis in fact. You want these people to be happy, but fate has other ideas. Bernard Rose put his heart and soul into the direction, Oldman is magnificent, and the great Johanna Ter Steege is almost unbearably touching in her pride, strength, and ultimate compassion. This is just a wonderful imagining of the artist's life, very sad but also really inspiring and entertaining. See more Alec B @Alec97 Feb 21, 2024 Rose's imagery is really hit or miss here (often it is silly but a few times it is truly gorgeous) but I think ultimately I appreciated the attempt to visualize the music of Beethoven and connect it with specific emotions. See more Read all reviews

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