Not just a musical, not just a colorful, but a deeply philosophical film!!! What did I like about Charles Vidor's movie? Music?Certainly! plot?And back to the point. Elizabeth Taylor? All in all!!! and now everything in order.
From the first second of the film, the music of Rachmaninov sounds. “The only thing I try to do when I write music is to make it express directly and simply what is in my heart. " These are the words of Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninov himself, which do not differ from the case and, based on his works, the director of the film “Rhapsody” Charles Vidor gave his film those tones, those shades that can touch to tears. The director and cameraman Robert H. Planck did not fail to the monastery, who put his soul into his work, giving us a beautiful picture with a magnificent color scheme. This person knows how to work with light and the camera in his hands, in his reliable hands does not tremble, like many modern operators.
In "Rhapsody" tells how a young and beautiful girl, well-off for everything else, regardless of the opinion of his father, goes with his beloved to Rome, so that his beloved made a career as a violinist. Which is exactly what's going on. Only the only one, performed by Vittorio Gassman, did not appreciate the sacrifice that a woman is capable of when she falls in love at the very top of her head. He went completely into music, began to tour a lot in different countries, and, as is often the case, did not avoid meeting another woman. And Louise, this is the name of the heroine Elizabeth Taylor, grieving this situation, grieving, marries another. But the film does not end there naturally. There will be and there is something to see and see is certainly worth it, because Elizabeth gave such a mind-blowing game in her young years that just dim the lights, sit still and be silent when Cleopatra speaks, and she knows how not only to talk, but also to cry and suffer, since there are few in this life.
I would also like to mention John Erickson. The guy tried and did his best. It's true!
Lovers of beautiful cinema, beautiful music and aesthetes must watch!!
10 out of 10