If pedigree were everything, Polish-born writer-director Agnieszka Holland, educated at Czechoslovakia's world-famous FAMU school and mentored by directors Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej Wajda, would be untouchable. But it's not, and her films are a frustrating mix of the sublime and the ridiculous; this film, written by Christopher Wilkinson and Stephen J. Rivele (NIXON, ALI), is one of the latter. Austria, 1827: Anna Holtz (Diane Kruger) races against time to get back to Vienna, where the most influential man in her life — 56-year-old composer Ludwig von Beethoven (Ed Harris) — is dying. Flashback to 1824: Deaf and thoroughly impossible, Beethoven is in de...
Released:
2006
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
n/a