The Silence Before Bach

2007

102 min

7.3

Ends at

This latest feature from the eccentrically experimental Catalan director Portabella is a beautiful, sometimes faintly bonkers celebration and contemplation of the role Bach’s music plays in the world today. Blending historical reconstruction with very loosely linked ‘dramatic’ scenes and documentary sequences, the film constitutes a playful, painterly sequence of variations on the argument that Johann Sebastian changed the way the world hears thanks to his extraordinary ear for harmony.

Budget

$0

Genre

Music

Director

Pere Portabella

Country

Spain

Cast & Crew

Christian Atanasiu

Féodor Atkine

Georg Christoph Biller

Christian Brembeck

Àlex Brendemühl

Georgina Cardona

Lucien Dekoster

Beatriz Ferrer-Salat

José Pedro García Balada

Gertrud Kossler

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The Silence Before Bach

This latest feature from the eccentrically experimental Catalan director Portabella is a beautiful, sometimes faintly bonkers celebration and contemplation of the role Bach’s music plays in the world today. Blending historical reconstruction with very loosely linked ‘dramatic’ scenes and documentary sequences, the film constitutes a playful, painterly sequence of variations on the argument that Johann Sebastian changed the way the world hears thanks to his extraordinary ear for harmony.

  • Christian Atanasiu

  • Féodor Atkine

  • Georg Christoph Biller

  • Christian Brembeck

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