Song without End (1960)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 142m
Director: Charles Vidor, George Cukor
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Genevieve Page
Synopsis:
The story of Franz Liszt, his phenomenal artistic success, and the love affairs that brought him public disgrace.
Review:
This unfortunately titled, novelettish biopic came twenty years too late for the inflated, archly scripted Hollywood idiom, and seeing the likes of Georges Sand, Wagner and Chopin, not to mention Liszt himself, embodied by familiar faces only makes things worse. Page comes off the best, indeed, as the Countess, but she cannot save this travesty of real figures and events. And as for what they do to the music...
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 142m
Director: Charles Vidor, George Cukor
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Genevieve Page
Synopsis:
The story of Franz Liszt, his phenomenal artistic success, and the love affairs that brought him public disgrace.
Review:
This unfortunately titled, novelettish biopic came twenty years too late for the inflated, archly scripted Hollywood idiom, and seeing the likes of Georges Sand, Wagner and Chopin, not to mention Liszt himself, embodied by familiar faces only makes things worse. Page comes off the best, indeed, as the Countess, but she cannot save this travesty of real figures and events. And as for what they do to the music...
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 142m
Director: Charles Vidor, George Cukor
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Genevieve Page
Synopsis:
The story of Franz Liszt, his phenomenal artistic success, and the love affairs that brought him public disgrace.
Review:
This unfortunately titled, novelettish biopic came twenty years too late for the inflated, archly scripted Hollywood idiom, and seeing the likes of Georges Sand, Wagner and Chopin, not to mention Liszt himself, embodied by familiar faces only makes things worse. Page comes off the best, indeed, as the Countess, but she cannot save this travesty of real figures and events. And as for what they do to the music...