This most recent film from the outlandishly creative Catalan director Portabella is a gorgeous, occasionally borderline nutty celebration and meditation on the significance of Bach's music in the modern world. The movie creates a whimsical, impressionistic series of variants on the claim that Johann Sebastian transformed the way the world heard because of his amazing ear for harmony by fusing historical reconstruction with extremely loosely connected "dramatic" scenes and documentary sequences.
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This most recent film from the outlandishly creative Catalan director Portabella is a gorgeous, occasionally borderline nutty celebration and meditation on the significance of Bach's music in the modern world. The movie creates a whimsical, impressionistic series of variants on the claim that Johann Sebastian transformed the way the world heard because of his amazing ear for harmony by fusing historical reconstruction with extremely loosely connected "dramatic" scenes and documentary sequences.
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