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| Immortal Beloved [Blu-ray] [1995] [US Import] [1994] | ![Immortal Beloved [Blu-ray] [1995] [US Import] [1994]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LuAmj-PxL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Bernard Rose
Actors: Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbe, Isabella Rossellini, Johanna Ter Steege, Valeria Golino
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
Buy New: £15.71
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (16 reviews)
Sales Rank: 44227
Format: Ac-3, Colour, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Korean (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Media: Blu-ray
Running Time: 121 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.1 x 0.5
MPN: COLBR20871
UPC: 043396208711
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Release Date: August 21, 2007
Theatrical Release Date: 1994
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Amazon.co.uk Review
This sumptuous and moving 1994 film written and directed by Bernard Rose (ICandyman/I) investigates the artistic and romantic passions of one of the greatest composers of all time. Featuring a superb performance by Gary Oldman (ISid and Nancy/I) as Ludwig van Beethoven, IImmortal Beloved/I is full of uncommonly vivid, rich imagery as it charts the tumultuous life of the deaf child prodigy and his rise to the height of musical achievement. Along the way, he attempts to play mentor to his nephew, attend to his many passionate romances--the most stable one was with a countess (Isabella Rossellini)--and fight bouts of depression and madness that ruled his life and his art. The film is framed around a "Rosebud"-type letter found after the composer's death that makes up the crux of the story. Jeroen Krabbe (IThe Fugitive/I), playing Beethoven's lifelong friend, attempts to discover who Beethoven's muse really was, becoming as driven as his friend in discovering the unlikely identity of the composer's "immortal beloved." Through this we gain an insight into the nature of obsession, romance, and the heights and sacrifices of artistic achievement. The film exhibits some extraordinary sound design, and the finale features a magical encapsulation of Beethoven's life and loves set to his "Ode to Joy." As an exciting and passionate journey, IImmortal Beloved/I is its own masterpiece. I--Robert Lane/I
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 A flawed concept, but rescued by outstanding acting and music December 16, 2008
Vienna (well Prague, as portrayed by Hollywood), 1827. A great composer is dead and his pupil and executor Schindler (Jeroen Krabbe) has to find Beethoven's "Immortal Beloved" of the title. Beethoven students have been trying to attach a definite name to that epithet without success for almost two centuries. Be that as it may, these events are really no more than a peg on which to hang a highly fanciful biopic of Beethoven.br /br /With any actor other than Gary Oldman as the great maestro, this could have been farcical, but the consummate actor is convincing in spite of the script he has to work with. Likewise, Krabbe (who could have been a convincing Beethoven in his own right) overcomes rather than takes advantage of his material and Johanna ter Steege gives a workmanlike portrayal of Beethoven's sister-in-law. But for me, the most delightful potrtayal was relatively minor, Izabella Rosselini's Countess Erdody.br /br /The film's two saving graces are Oldman's Beethoven and Sir Georg Solti's vibrant performance of the music with the London Symphony Orchestra. In particular, the rendition of the Emperor concerto right at the end (with Perahia, no less, as soloist) is as good as any performance I have ever heard on a motion picture soundtrack.br /br /For all the liberties scriptwriter Bernard Rose takes with history, this is at root a vehicle for performing the work of one of the greatest musical geniuses of all time. In that sense the film is a success, in most other respects I'm not so sure.
Beloved Beethoven August 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The title of the film relates to a letter sent by Beethoven to a lady with whom he had fallen in love. But the name of that lady is unknown and this mystery has long fascinated Beethoven scholars. Many have been the names put in the frame. Bernard Rose, who wrote as well as directed this movie, presents his theory. Is it Giuletta Giucciardi, Countess Gallenberg, or Anna-Marie, Countess Erdody, or Johanna Reiss, his sister-in-law?br /br /There is so much that is wrong with this film - for example, its historical inaccuracies; the lack of consistency in accents; and the use of hilly Prague to portray flat Vienna. Watching this film I was often confronted with the crass, the artless, the preposterous, the embarrassing, and the laughable. We have comedy with Barry Humphries as Metternich, Dame Edna Everage struggling to emerge from within his breast. We have naff lines such as Schindler's "It was that damned sonata" on the day that he met Beethoven. And yet, and yet ...br /br /The film is colourful and imaginative, Beethoven's deafness is convincingly conveyed, and the sub-story of the composer's relationship with his nephew is well-told. Perhaps the idea was to replicate the success of "Amadeus" for Beethoven with a high-quality costume-drama. Bernard Rose says that he used the story of seeking Beethoven's "immortal beloved" as an excuse to show the more private and difficult sides of the composer.br /br /Jeroen Krabbe (originally marked down as to play Beethoven) is good as the composer's amanuensis Schindler; equally good is Johanna Ter Steege as the subject of the title. But Gary Oldman is mesmerising as the man himself; his eyes, his hair, his lips, all seem so perfect for the role. Oldman says that he passed on the script twice, but realised it would be a good departure from his usual roles. He tells us that we have to look at the film as a fiction, as Beethoven filtered through the director's vision. Bernard Rose concedes that his film has been attacked by scholars on historical grounds, but he insists that the movie is about the music, being aimed at twelve- and thirteen-year-olds to show that Beethoven's music was not stuffy - is not stuffy - but rather something worth exploring. And indeed, on the way, we hear some of the greatest music ever written, with Georg Solti conducting, the music editing into the film being skilfully done and very commendable.br /br /The extras on this DVD include `talent files' for the main actors and director, a director's commentary, a five-minute featurettes and a thirty-minute documentary called "Beloved Beethoven". br /
 A stunning film March 24, 2008
Immortal Beloved is truly one of the most beautiful and moving films you will ever watch. The last scene is moving beyond words, where the full extent of the two lead characters misunderstandings comes to light- get your tissues at hand. br /Absolutely beautiful.
Immortal Beloved November 21, 2007
Great acting by Gary Oldman as Beethoven, combined with this great composer's most popular music and an insight into his life and the search for his "Immortal Beloved" make this a wonderful film for classical music love-story afficianados alike. Such wonderful music and probably the most romantic love-letter ever penned gave me a new insight on Beethoven. A must-buy DVD in tandem with "Amadeus" for the discerning love-of-your-life this Christmas ;)
not perfect but worth seeing March 1, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am a fan both of Beethoven and Gary Oldman, so of course I ran to watch this movie. I wasn't disappointed, but the script could have been better. The argument and the finale are clever, but the dialogues are childish, the focus on the women is too much and to be frank the director was too modest. He should have gone for more drama and grandeur, the film should have aimed for a more intense and majestic feeling. In my opinion we only have a glimpse of what this film could have been in a few scenes, namely the one in which Beethoven plays the piano with his ear to it, and the magnificent finale (the story's solution and the 9th Symphony sequence). brI'm not in the movie business so I don't know exactly what went wrong, but I suspect it is indeed the script's fault. If they had given the movie more of an epic quality and less of a TV series resemblance... Oh well, what a waste.brAs for Oldman, when the movie began I thought that was not one of his usually great performances. But quite the contrary! As I watched on, I got the impression he WAS acting impressively, only his lines were crappy sometimes. In fact he even managed to make some of the bad dialogue sound good, possibly because his face and voice draw all the viewer's attention and well, you get caught. I suppose that was very hard work for Oldman and he deserves a bunch of Oscars for this movie alone. That's my opinion anyway.brOh and may I add, had the actor been anybody else but Oldman this movie would have been laughable or insipid, instead of passably good with some very remarkable moments.brAnd Sir Georg Solti's LSO performances helped a lot, too.
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