The Red Violin

As an artistic movie, it tries really hard to succeed and does in a limited way.

Standard anthology film with the violin serving as a novel connecting tissue – if you enjoy this “browsing” style of narrative, there’s enough eclectic style and content to enjoy. Too pretentious and self-important for such light-weight drama, but a star studded cast help bring some extra oomph – the unapologetic melodrama of Flemyng and Scacchi’s segment is the highlight, but all segments work reasonably well – nice to see Jackson playing something other than the “Samuel L. Jackson” role.

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85.000

This is an original, interesting film. The plot revolves around the history of a red violin. The cast is a nice ensemble and they bring the story to life. I would recommend this interesting drama.

this was an interesting, at times ridiculous film. even with samuel l jackson starring, however, this film still managed to retain that quintessentially canadian boringness/mundanity that permeates all their films.

A pretty good interconnecting-timelines kind of movie. Not a GREAT one, I don't think. But good.

great musical journey.

For such an ambitious film, that attempts to interweave three centuries of narrative no less, it's remarkable that the pool of talent on display amounts to practically nothing. No cohesive story, no fully fleshed out characters, and a wildly inconsistent tone. Granted it's not a particularly simple task to balance such an array of settings, time periods, and characters, but to undertake such a task unprepared is foolish. Such a theatrical mindlessness is little more than spectacle.

I found this movie to be very fun and well made, I liked they stories and how the connected

Which of these does not belong? Violins, culture, Samuel L. Jackson.

81.750

Having a friend who is a professional violin player, I was quite interested in this film about a centuries-old violin passed from generation to generation and travelling from country to country. It's not a great film, being a bit long and not terribly original in setup, but the film did show quite beautifully how such an old instrument is being played by dozens of people in completely different environments and time periods.

I take violin classes as a hobby, loved watching this movie!

The characters are over-the-top, the story is not very subtle either. The editing and narrative style is quite cliché, so all in all it's not a story that stays with you for a very long while.

Great flowing story.

Omnibus film along the lines of _Tales of Manhattan_ or _The Yellow Rolls-Royce_, only instead of a coat or a car, the linking thread is a 17th-century musical instrument, passing through many hands on its way to a present-day auction house. There is a degree of suspense about who will get it in the end, and at what cost; and there is even a touch of the caper film about it.

Good movie, though the unnecessary fortune-teller side-plot nearly ruined it for me.

While well crafted & interesting, the redundant scenes & slow pacing make this a shade dull. Giving the violin a "life" and making it the central focus of the film neglects the usual center in drama, the characters. Large portions of the film are subtitled adding realism and fatigue.

Great movie!

Intriguing, moving, educational, unusual.

De film zat wel interessant in elkaar enzo maar hij boeide me gewoon niet.

The obsessive qualities that the violin inspires in its owners serve as a laundry list of human aspirations gone wrong. The framing story in the auction house does less for me on a repeat viewing, while the use of music as an at once beautiful and sinister master drawing people to want to possess the instrument that produces the music gets at the heart of obsession in a creative way.

Interesting, but in my opinoin average, although the story itslef, the is fascinating...a violin painted in blood...

Interesting premise, to track a single violin through time, and watch the lives of the people who played it. Lovely costumes and sets. It has it's flaws, though, but I'm not giving them away.

I don't remember much about this film because it was just so damned boring and depressing.

Not a whole lot to say about this one. I enjoyed the unusual narrative structure. Quite satisfying, though it doesn't stay with you very long.

Incredible movie

Each story is beautiful, but together become art.

I saw it.

Extremely interesting and epic.

Interesting idea for a film, but somehow this movie doesn't quite work