As an historical insight into the life of Beethoven this movie is next to useless. It is completely fictional, a parallel universe to the real Beethoven but not the real one. That aside it's reasonably entertaining if only for the writers imagination for the fantasy of what they imagined Beethoven to be like if he really did have a sexy female assistant with aspirations of being a great composer.
The real revelation here is Ed Harris. I had to check 4-5 times to remind myself this was Ed Harris. The makeup and performance is fantastic. He is almost completely unrecognizable as the Ed Harris we are familiar with in all his other movies. I was looking for full face close ups to see how they did it but couldn't really tell.
The music is also pretty impressive. The 9th Symphony sounds brilliant.
I'm not sure what this movie was meant to be, but its turned out to be a fictional period piece using historical figures, it looks impressive, but why use and soil the name of Beethoven for it?
But Ed Harris, whoever he is supposed to be is amazing.
The real revelation here is Ed Harris. I had to check 4-5 times to remind myself this was Ed Harris. The makeup and performance is fantastic. He is almost completely unrecognizable as the Ed Harris we are familiar with in all his other movies. I was looking for full face close ups to see how they did it but couldn't really tell.
The music is also pretty impressive. The 9th Symphony sounds brilliant.
I'm not sure what this movie was meant to be, but its turned out to be a fictional period piece using historical figures, it looks impressive, but why use and soil the name of Beethoven for it?
But Ed Harris, whoever he is supposed to be is amazing.