Rhapsody is a film about and for fans of classical music and you'd better like it or otherwise you might be bored throughly. Otherwise you get a rather turgid romance between young Elizabeth Taylor and two guys she keeps on a string, violinist Vittorio Gassman and pianist John Ericson. In the end you might not care which one she does get.
Classical artists have their share of groupies like anyone else, just study the careers of Chopin, Mozart, and Liszt to name a few. And Liz is a classical groupie. She first focuses on Gassman, but later meets up with Ericson who is using the GI bill for classical studies with the great music master Michael Chekhov.
In fact when Taylor auditions for Chekhov for his school, she knows she hasn't got the right stuff, but she's willing to pay double because she's got a thing for Gassman and wants to more fully understand the classical music experience, the better to share his life. After that point I was put off. How incredibly ridiculous is this going to get?
Still lots of violin, piano, and orchestral work are what Rhapsody is made of and you might like the film for that and just turn off the sound when the actors start spouting some of the most ridiculous dialog you'll ever hear.
Classical artists have their share of groupies like anyone else, just study the careers of Chopin, Mozart, and Liszt to name a few. And Liz is a classical groupie. She first focuses on Gassman, but later meets up with Ericson who is using the GI bill for classical studies with the great music master Michael Chekhov.
In fact when Taylor auditions for Chekhov for his school, she knows she hasn't got the right stuff, but she's willing to pay double because she's got a thing for Gassman and wants to more fully understand the classical music experience, the better to share his life. After that point I was put off. How incredibly ridiculous is this going to get?
Still lots of violin, piano, and orchestral work are what Rhapsody is made of and you might like the film for that and just turn off the sound when the actors start spouting some of the most ridiculous dialog you'll ever hear.