The Silence Before Bach
7.3 / 10
102 minutes
2007-12-21
German
ES
Actors :
Christian Atanasiu, Féodor Atkine, Georg Christoph Biller, Christian Brembeck, Àlex Brendemühl, Georgina Cardona, Lucien Dekoster, Beatriz Ferrer-Salat, José Pedro García Balada, Gertrud Kossler, Bert Kripstädt, Lina Lambert, Daniel Ligorio, Jordi Llordella, Ferrán Ruiz
Description
This latest feature from the eccentrically experimental Catalan director Portabella is a beautiful, sometimes faintly bonkers celebration and contemplation of the role Bach’s music plays in the world today. Blending historical reconstruction with very loosely linked ‘dramatic’ scenes and documentary sequences, the film constitutes a playful, painterly sequence of variations on the argument that Johann Sebastian changed the way the world hears thanks to his extraordinary ear for harmony.