Intermezzo (1939)
Country: US
Technical: bw 69m
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Cast: Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman
Synopsis:
An internationally celebrated violinist looking for a new accompanist falls in love with his daughter's piano teacher and the two run away together. However, a visit from her former teacher convinces her to renounce her happiness.
Review:
The Selznick production, a remake of a Swedish success also with Bergman, is handsomely mounted and features affecting playing from its leads together with pretty good matching of fingers to their instruments, but the film is unconvincing in its restoration of order and morally dated, even having Brandt return to his plain divorced wife. The eponymous composition provides much of the musical interest save for the cadenza of Grieg's piano concerto which is the focus of the lovers' first (improvised) collaboration - a pity they couldn't dig up a piece for violin and piano solo! Still, Intermezzo remains a poignant and salutary reminder of the price of extra-marital love, eclipsed fairly and squarely by Noel Coward's Brief Encounter.
Country: US
Technical: bw 69m
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Cast: Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman
Synopsis:
An internationally celebrated violinist looking for a new accompanist falls in love with his daughter's piano teacher and the two run away together. However, a visit from her former teacher convinces her to renounce her happiness.
Review:
The Selznick production, a remake of a Swedish success also with Bergman, is handsomely mounted and features affecting playing from its leads together with pretty good matching of fingers to their instruments, but the film is unconvincing in its restoration of order and morally dated, even having Brandt return to his plain divorced wife. The eponymous composition provides much of the musical interest save for the cadenza of Grieg's piano concerto which is the focus of the lovers' first (improvised) collaboration - a pity they couldn't dig up a piece for violin and piano solo! Still, Intermezzo remains a poignant and salutary reminder of the price of extra-marital love, eclipsed fairly and squarely by Noel Coward's Brief Encounter.
Country: US
Technical: bw 69m
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Cast: Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman
Synopsis:
An internationally celebrated violinist looking for a new accompanist falls in love with his daughter's piano teacher and the two run away together. However, a visit from her former teacher convinces her to renounce her happiness.
Review:
The Selznick production, a remake of a Swedish success also with Bergman, is handsomely mounted and features affecting playing from its leads together with pretty good matching of fingers to their instruments, but the film is unconvincing in its restoration of order and morally dated, even having Brandt return to his plain divorced wife. The eponymous composition provides much of the musical interest save for the cadenza of Grieg's piano concerto which is the focus of the lovers' first (improvised) collaboration - a pity they couldn't dig up a piece for violin and piano solo! Still, Intermezzo remains a poignant and salutary reminder of the price of extra-marital love, eclipsed fairly and squarely by Noel Coward's Brief Encounter.