It's a French production. The director is Romanian-born, that's all. But the money and almost everything else in the film is French. Even more, the director was born in Romania but left it to study and live in France. I'm not French, for the record.
Realmente cuando escuchas esta musica tan bella, no puedes no emocionarte, esta maravilla toca la fibra mas intima del alma. Un genio Tchaicovsky!!!! .
apparently she spent about 6 months training with a professional violinist standing behind her who is the one playing the audio so that they could be more in synch, but she learnt just the posture and technique to imitate her just for this piece. so it's her performing it, but not her playing it.. if that makes sense?
They cut a scene! In the original version (I'm french), when Andreï calls Leonid through the glass at the airport, he give him the finger . Then Leonid did the "huh face".
J'ai bien aimé ce film qui montre que malgré toutes les tourmentes de la vie, un fil ténu unit toutes sortes de gens dans le monde entier et que même séparées des personnes peuvent se retrouver et triompher même sur plus fort que soi... car la musique est un pont sacré entre les individus que rien ni personne ne pourra jamais détruire!
Oué...Quel virtuosité de jeux d'acteurs! dans cette scène. cela me donne envie de regarder ce film. J'en profiterai pour lire le générique de fin et savoir qui joue cette scène? De toutes manières, il est très possible qu'un ingénieur du son soit passer par là...! excellente prise et arrangement du son en studio! et bravo à tous ces gens qui ont participer à ce film.
@cornel999 No you have to see the whole movie to understand...this is a very good movie full of emotions and this is the final scene where you understand why she's playing that well! See the movie ;) "Le concert" with Melanie Laurent as the solist
Steven Gerrard, I think the real viollonist was Sarah Nemtanu, who was also the violin coach for Laurent for two months before the movie. With the Budapest Philarmonic. So we have a Romanian director, with a French/Romanian/Gypsy/Russian/Jewish cast, a Romanian violonist and a Hungarian orchestra... Who says the European union does not work???
Well. it seems that the lovely violinist is the baby who was smuggled in (into Paris?) when her concert violinist mother and her father were sent to a Siberian concentration camp ... the black and white bits are the past- the mother always played the Tschaikovsky concerto that the girl is playing - while in the camp, but without the violin. She was therefore called, 'the crazy one'. The father died of grief 6 months later. The baby was passed on to a couple of families, and I think wound up
Sencillamente extraordinaria este Concierto, vi la película, admiro la música de Tchaicovsky, dejó un legado importante a la humanidad a travez de su música
...wound up with the director. So when she plays so miraculously, she brings the orchestra from possible tragedy not only musically but really- they get to tour the world and get a new life. That's what I got from it!
BRAVISSIMO,!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111VOY A TENER QUE VER TODA LA PELICULA YA QUE CON SOLO OBSERVAR ESTA PORCION YA ME QUEDE CON LAS GANAS DE VERLA INTEGRA..
In the bonus on the DVD, you will see that's not the actress who really playing. She has just learned the movement like a real violinist during six mounth for the final scene. And no, it's not horrible, it's just a little different that the real concerto, but I suppose this is done on purpose for the movie.
She does a really convincing performance of this. Especially the bowing arm. I wonder how they did this. Is it her or a stand in? She even does vibrato on the notes with vibrato and straight tone on the notes that aren't vibrato. I've only been playing for 5 years, and she does a much better "fake" than I could ever do.
on the dvd they do an interview, combination of a good actress and a wonderful coach. same reason that Neo could say: 'i know kung fu', and not be laughed at.
Couldn't agree more. Though the one thing that makes it obvious she's not the one playing it is that she's standing still, there's no "feeling" I might say. Really good acting nonetheless.
@surfboy don't fret. If you really believe in what you do and are happy doing it, with hard work and perseverance I'm sure you'll make it. Make the standards you set for yoursdelf your light at the end oif your tunnel. Strive for it and you'll get. there.And Iagree with you. She is indeed a marvelous violinst.
@cornel999 Not necessarily you must be French, you can also be Russian to understand it. The world doesn't end outside of the English culture... Indeed, the film is French-Russian. If you like it, like for a translated version that suits you.
Not trying to be a nerd or anything but I'm a professional string player. It's not her playing, obviously, but i think that girl can actually play a little bit. There are people who specialize in training actors how to fake instruments. it could actually be that this actress practiced how to fake. she has a very nice left hand. The woman with the dark hair is absolutely a string player.
Watched the US trailer for some background, and it has almost nothing to do with this performance. While the story might be interesting in toto, the fact is this section is completely different than that trailer, and a whole lot better. Forget the rest...and just enjoy this! You'll pick up enough to understand what's happening.
Is this really her playing? It's hard to tell. I went to her biography on IMDB and it says that she is a singer, it says nothing about her being a violinist.
+juan zavala Romanian director Radu Mihaileanu wrote the script and directed the movie. European Union Money, Made, mostly, in France. The same director who directed Train of Life.
