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Directed By: Radu Mihaileanu
Written By: Radu Mihaileanu, Matthew Robins, Alain-Michel Blanc, Release Date: 2010-07-16 - NY and/or LA
Distributor(s): The Weinstein Company
Film Genre(s): Musical, Dramedy
Country: European co-production
CAST
Alexie Guskov, Mélanie Laurent, Dimitri Nazarov, Miou-Miou, FrançoisBerléand,
Lionel Abelanski
SYNOPSIS
Partly based on a true story, focuses on a former conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra who was demoted during the communist era for refusing to fire the Jewish players. 25 years later still working in the orchestra's theater as a janitor, he stumbles upon a faxed invitation for the Orchestra to play in Paris and decides to gather up his old musician buddies, go to Paris and play as the Bolshoi.
Andreï Filipov was a prodigy—the celebrated conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra, the greatest orchestra in Russia. Today, aged 50, he still works at the Bolshoi, but as a cleaner.
During the communist era, he was fired at the height of his fame for refusing to get rid of all his Jewish Players—Zionists and enemies of the People—including his best friend Sacha Grossman. Andreï sank into booze and depression.
The Director of the Bolshoi, an old apparatchik, has been promising forever to return Andreï’s orchestra to him “soon”, but he’s mocking him, humiliating him sadistically. For him, Andreï’s a has-been, and he’s doing him a big favor by keeping him on as a cleaner.
Then Andreï finds a fax inviting the orchestra to play at Pleyel, in Paris, in two weeks’ time, as a last minute replacement for the indisposed San Francisco Philharmonic. Andreï conceives of a crazy notion: he’ll round up his old musician buddies, a motley bunch now scraping a living in Moscow as cab drivers, removal men, flea market traders, suppliers of porno film sound effects…
They’ll go to Paris as the Bolshoi. They’ll defy destiny and take their revenge! Will they make it? --© Weinstein
STORY
A disgraced conductor pretends that he still works for the prestigious Bolshoi Orchestra.
"The Concert" is the new film from Radu Mihaileanu, the acclaimed writer/director of "Live and Become," starring Mélanie Laurent ("Inglorious Basterds"), François Berléand; ("Transporter" series), and Alexei Guskov. In this new comedy, Guskov stars as Andrei Filipov, a once celebrated Russian conductor of the Bolshoi who has hit rock bottom and is now working as a depressed custodian who drinks too much. But when he intercepts an invitation meant for this former orchestra to perform in Paris, Andrei masterminds a plan to pose as the leader of the group in order to make a triumphant return to the music scene. With a motley bunch of former musicians at his side, Andrei sets off for Paris to fulfill his destiny and return to his glory as a great conductor. Along the way, he will reunite with a young, beautiful violin virtuoso played by acclaimed actress Mélanie Laurent who holds the key to his past and to his future. With a message of hope and making the most of second chances, "The Concert" promises to be one of the most uplifting and entertaining films of the year.
REVIEWS
Opens: July 16, 2010
When I looked at the brief synopsis of "The Concert," which states that a Bolshoi orchestra conductor was fired for hiring Jewish musicians, I figured that the action takes place during the Nazi era in Europe. But no! The story is set in the Soviet Union on Leonid Brezhnev's watch. The soviet government officials, having lost twenty million people to the Germans in World War 2, were now emulating the people they struggled so mightily to defeat. The country that recognized the legitimacy of Israel almost immediately after that country's founding in 1948 had become officially anti-Semitic. The world is irrational: what a surprise!
This should not give anyone the impression the "The Concert," filmed in Moscow and Paris, is a serious affair, though a sentimental touch takes over nicely near the conclusion. This is pure screwball comedy, fast-paced with sharp dialogue whose principal fault is that director Radu Mihaileanu allows the entire cast to go too far over the top. Sometimes a director will restrain comic personalities too much, keeping them on too much of a leash to cut loose. In this case, however, the ensemble scream when they could show more authentic emotions and dash about like headless chickens trying to cross the road from Moscow to Paris.
Romanian-born director Radu Mihaileanu, son of a Jewish Communist journalist, had emigrated from his native land because of Ceausescu's dictatorship, He demonstrated his interest in Jewish themes with his "Va, vis et deveins." "Live and Become," as it is known in English, deals with the emigration beginning in 1980 of Black Jews from Ethiopia to Israel. Adhering to this theme, he anchors "The Concert" with Alexei Guskov in the role of the aforementioned Bolshoi orchestra conductor who has worked thirty years as a Bolshoi Theater janitor in Moscow after being humiliated in mid-concert for hiring a number of Jews for his group. He comes upon a fax just sent in from Olivier Morne Duplessis (François Berléand), manager of the Châtelet Theater in Paris, needing to book the Bolshoi orchestra to fill in a gap because of the cancellation of a traveling L.A. group. Seeing a chance to impersonate the orchestra, however far-fetched in real life, he brings together musicians that he worked with thirty years ago-cab drivers and the like and also some Romani people-and hustles them to Paris to complete the very violin concerto that he was conducting three decades ago.
Andreï Filipov was a prodigy—the celebrated conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra, the greatest orchestra in Russia. Today, aged 50, he still works at the Bolshoi, but as a cleaner.
During the communist era, he was fired at the height of his fame for refusing to get rid of all his Jewish Players—Zionists and enemies of the People—including his best friend Sacha Grossman. Andreï sank into booze and depression.
The Director of the Bolshoi, an old apparatchik, has been promising forever to return Andreï’s orchestra to him “soon”, but he’s mocking him, humiliating him sadistically. For him, Andreï’s a has-been, and he’s doing him a big favor by keeping him on as a cleaner.
Then Andreï finds a fax inviting the orchestra to play at Pleyel, in Paris, in two weeks’ time, as a last minute replacement for the indisposed San Francisco Philharmonic. Andreï conceives of a crazy notion: he’ll round up his old musician buddies, a motley bunch now scraping a living in Moscow as cab drivers, removal men, flea market traders, suppliers of porno film sound effects…
They’ll go to Paris as the Bolshoi. They’ll defy destiny and take their revenge! Will they make it? --© Weinstein
STORY
A disgraced conductor pretends that he still works for the prestigious Bolshoi Orchestra.
"The Concert" is the new film from Radu Mihaileanu, the acclaimed writer/director of "Live and Become," starring Mélanie Laurent ("Inglorious Basterds"), François Berléand; ("Transporter" series), and Alexei Guskov. In this new comedy, Guskov stars as Andrei Filipov, a once celebrated Russian conductor of the Bolshoi who has hit rock bottom and is now working as a depressed custodian who drinks too much. But when he intercepts an invitation meant for this former orchestra to perform in Paris, Andrei masterminds a plan to pose as the leader of the group in order to make a triumphant return to the music scene. With a motley bunch of former musicians at his side, Andrei sets off for Paris to fulfill his destiny and return to his glory as a great conductor. Along the way, he will reunite with a young, beautiful violin virtuoso played by acclaimed actress Mélanie Laurent who holds the key to his past and to his future. With a message of hope and making the most of second chances, "The Concert" promises to be one of the most uplifting and entertaining films of the year.
REVIEWS
Opens: July 16, 2010
When I looked at the brief synopsis of "The Concert," which states that a Bolshoi orchestra conductor was fired for hiring Jewish musicians, I figured that the action takes place during the Nazi era in Europe. But no! The story is set in the Soviet Union on Leonid Brezhnev's watch. The soviet government officials, having lost twenty million people to the Germans in World War 2, were now emulating the people they struggled so mightily to defeat. The country that recognized the legitimacy of Israel almost immediately after that country's founding in 1948 had become officially anti-Semitic. The world is irrational: what a surprise!
This should not give anyone the impression the "The Concert," filmed in Moscow and Paris, is a serious affair, though a sentimental touch takes over nicely near the conclusion. This is pure screwball comedy, fast-paced with sharp dialogue whose principal fault is that director Radu Mihaileanu allows the entire cast to go too far over the top. Sometimes a director will restrain comic personalities too much, keeping them on too much of a leash to cut loose. In this case, however, the ensemble scream when they could show more authentic emotions and dash about like headless chickens trying to cross the road from Moscow to Paris.
Romanian-born director Radu Mihaileanu, son of a Jewish Communist journalist, had emigrated from his native land because of Ceausescu's dictatorship, He demonstrated his interest in Jewish themes with his "Va, vis et deveins." "Live and Become," as it is known in English, deals with the emigration beginning in 1980 of Black Jews from Ethiopia to Israel. Adhering to this theme, he anchors "The Concert" with Alexei Guskov in the role of the aforementioned Bolshoi orchestra conductor who has worked thirty years as a Bolshoi Theater janitor in Moscow after being humiliated in mid-concert for hiring a number of Jews for his group. He comes upon a fax just sent in from Olivier Morne Duplessis (François Berléand), manager of the Châtelet Theater in Paris, needing to book the Bolshoi orchestra to fill in a gap because of the cancellation of a traveling L.A. group. Seeing a chance to impersonate the orchestra, however far-fetched in real life, he brings together musicians that he worked with thirty years ago-cab drivers and the like and also some Romani people-and hustles them to Paris to complete the very violin concerto that he was conducting three decades ago.
His ringer, Anne-Marie Jacquet (Mélanie Laurent), is a virtuoso violinist who must be charmed into playing the difficult cadenzas as a soloist, a woman whose back-story is revealed near the conclusion, when we see the familial link between her and the conductor. Each of the characters is a true individual, needing to be melded into a community to play Piotor Ilyich's monumental concerto, particularly Aleksander Abramovitch 'Sacha' Grossman, an obese, Zero-Mostel kind of guy, who provides much of the comic festivities. Others include Guylène de la Rivière (Miou-Miou) as the agent of the solo violinist who has taken over the role of the woman's substitute mother-who, we are told, died in an Alpine plane crash. Tension is provided by the Russian custom of showing up hours late for booked events, in one case stranding the group's manager, in truth a blustery KGB official who shafted Guskov 30 years ago by outing the Jewish hires.
Mihaileanu uses Guskov's wife to mine some of the comic touches as a woman who, for a fee, hires extras to show up at the KGB official's Communist rallies-which of course would be otherwise sparsely attended. Only one major character shows real class, the solo violinist played by Mélanie Laurent whose actions helped to make "Inglourious Basterds" last year's best picture. (Ignore the Oscar pick in this case.) The final twenty minutes of so, given over to a full orchestral concert of substantial part of Tschaikowski's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, conclude the movie on an uplifting note. Yes, you can go home again, there are indeed second chances, and all the other clichés the audience can think up to describe what could be one of the more emotional and optimistic conclusions of any film this year.
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