Movie: The Silence Before Bach

I think, perhaps, this film thought it was cleverer than it actually was. The music, of course, was amazing. Even the way the little vignettes tied together in a sort of fugue-like fashion was kind of neat (though my husband points out that in a fugue there is simultaneity, which was not the case here). Mostly, though, the film suffered from a case of the borings. It didn't engage quite enough to carry off what it was doing. If you're going to present an agonizingly long, boring shot of something you'd better damn-well make sure your audience is already so engaged they won't notice.

See: The New World. Some people thought that movie was boring. I was so engaged from the first moment I would have watched that actress read the phone book. The whole New York City phone book. All five boroughs. If such a thing existed.