Reviews
Empire Magazine
David Parkinson
“A superior speculation on the Mozart family that eschews feminist cant to present a melancholic treatise on transient celebrity and wasted talent.”
10/04/2012
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The Evening Standard
The Evening Standard
“The Versailles setting is as awe-inspiring as the thought that, had she not been a woman, Nanneri might well have been as famous as her brother.”
13/04/2012
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The Financial Times
Antonia Quirke
“A varnished, interesting production that takes us even to Versailles, but is at its best when the Mozart family quip”
12/04/2012
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The Independent
Anthony Quinn
“Writer-director René Féret imagines the young Miss Mozart's friendship with the teenage son and daughter of Louis XV – also trammelled by the social order of the day – and presents a touching and telling portrait of the times.”
13/04/2012
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Time Out
Trevor Johnston
“True, this slightly ploddy and overlong offering gets the key point across early on and coasts from there, but Marie-Jeanne Séréro’s lovely speculative score makes Nannerl’s embattled creativity sing out after all these years.”
11/04/2012
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The Observer
Philip French
“ it's a well-designed, tasteful affair. But as none of Nannerl's music exists, judgments on her talent, as opposed to the cruel way contemporary mores insisted on her being treated, remain moot.”
15/04/2012
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The Sunday Times
Edward Porter
“There’s enough here to suggest that Féret could have made a rewarding film by staying close to the facts throughout. What he invents instead, a tall tale about Nannerl falling for the French dauphin, is neither dramatic nor thought-provoking.”
15/04/2012
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The Guardian
Peter Bradshaw
“It has a seriousness that commands attention, and a very believable sense of the hardship and bitterness Mozart Sr put his family through. It is a good subject. If only this film weren't so turgid, and didn't have that strained quality in the sound recording that picks up every extraneous costume-rustle and makes the background silence in every scene seem like a continuous hiss.”
12/04/2012
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The Independent on Sunday
Nicholas Barber
“It's plodding stuff, made worse by the stilted performances of the two female leads, both of whom happen to be the director's daughters.”
15/04/2012
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The Times
Wendy Ide
“It is hard to imagine two young women who look more profoundly uncomfortable on screen than the director René Féret’s two daughters. Unfortunately one of them is cast in the central role of Nannerl, the eponymous sister of Wolfgang.”
13/04/2012
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