Shubert's Serenade (1940) DVD-R
Starring Robert Arnoux, Georges Bever, Roger Bourdin, Auguste Boverio, Jacques Butin
Directed by Jean Boyer
Print: black/white
Runtime: 90 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B
The blissfully romantic notion that all great musical composers have been inspired to their finest works by the fervid—but unusually hopeless—love of a beautiful woman is again receiving pleasing circulation in "Schubert's Serenade," a new French film fiction based rather freely upon the life of Franz Schubert, which arrived at the Fifty-fifth Street Playhouse yesterday. It is a notion which generally requires considerable fabrication for support, and the ease with which it endows composition with spontaneity is always amazing. But it also, as in the present case, permits an appropriate framework into which may be properly fitted the music of the composer. And when that is nicely done, no serious exception may be taken.
In this instance, Schubert ascends—or descends, if you choose to be literal—from his Viennese garret to the heights of youthful success because of the passionate devotion of an English dancer whom he happens to meet. But the lady also happens to be the particular fancy of the powerful chief of police, so in order, presumably, to avoid unpleasant complications the lovers renounce one another, heart-broken but emotionally matured. Meanwhile, however, Schubert has composed his famous "Serenade" in a moment of divine ecstacy; he has turned out, apparently as an individual number to be danced by his sweetheart, the "Rosamonde" ballet, and has unburdened his musical soul of several other scores.
Starring Robert Arnoux, Georges Bever, Roger Bourdin, Auguste Boverio, Jacques Butin
Directed by Jean Boyer
Print: black/white
Runtime: 90 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B
The blissfully romantic notion that all great musical composers have been inspired to their finest works by the fervid—but unusually hopeless—love of a beautiful woman is again receiving pleasing circulation in "Schubert's Serenade," a new French film fiction based rather freely upon the life of Franz Schubert, which arrived at the Fifty-fifth Street Playhouse yesterday. It is a notion which generally requires considerable fabrication for support, and the ease with which it endows composition with spontaneity is always amazing. But it also, as in the present case, permits an appropriate framework into which may be properly fitted the music of the composer. And when that is nicely done, no serious exception may be taken.
In this instance, Schubert ascends—or descends, if you choose to be literal—from his Viennese garret to the heights of youthful success because of the passionate devotion of an English dancer whom he happens to meet. But the lady also happens to be the particular fancy of the powerful chief of police, so in order, presumably, to avoid unpleasant complications the lovers renounce one another, heart-broken but emotionally matured. Meanwhile, however, Schubert has composed his famous "Serenade" in a moment of divine ecstacy; he has turned out, apparently as an individual number to be danced by his sweetheart, the "Rosamonde" ballet, and has unburdened his musical soul of several other scores.
| Product Name | Shubert's Serenade (1940) DVD-R |
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