The Devil’s Violinist 2013 123movies

Watch: The Devil’s Violinist 2013 123movies, Full Movie Online – 1830. Violin virtuoso and notorious womanizer Niccolò Paganini (David Garrett) is at the peak of his career, acclaimed throughout Europe. His name alone suggests countless affairs and scandals – which is exactly what his manager Urbani (Jared Harris) is doing his utmost to cultivate, for it is in his interest to market his famous client the best way possible. Only the London public has yet to be conquered. In a plan to lure Paganini to London for his British debut, English impresario John Watson (Christian McKay) and his mistress Elisabeth Wells (Veronica Ferres) risk all they own. Business-savvy Urbani ultimately manages to bring Paganini to the British capital, albeit against his will. And thanks to the rave reviews by journalist Ethel Langham (Joely Richardson), Urbani’s strategy seems to be working better than he imagined. Protestors throng his hotel, causing pandemonium. Musician and manager are forced to take refuge at Watson’s home, where Paganini quickly takes a liking to his host’s lovely daughter Charlotte (Andrea Deck), a talented singer. She and the violinist find the way to each other’s hearts through music – and Paganini falls undyingly in love with the young beauty. This displeases Urbani, however, who fears he will lose his influence on his protegé. He begins to craft a diabolical plan….
Plot: The life story of Italian violinist and composer, Niccolò Paganini, who rose to fame as a virtuoso in the early 19th Century.
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Ratings:

	6.0/10 Votes: 3,628
	31% | RottenTomatoes
	38/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 148 Popularity: 7.86 | TMDB

Reviews:

Unconvincing period biopic
Niccolò Paganini (David Garrett) is a virtuoso violinist, stolen from Italian obscurity by the serpentine Urbani (Jared Harris) and brought to swinging 19th century London on the request of struggling promoter John Watson (Christian McKay). There his lascivious urges and his musical genius find equal outlet, until his heart is attuned to Charlotte (Andrea Deck), with whom he shares a harmonious partnership. Tragedy encroaches, however, as those who brought Paganini to the top conspire to cast him into the gutter once more.

What is the truth of Paganini? Bernard Rose’s biopic plays fast and loose, which shouldn’t matter because art strives for universal truths. Yet such striving often leads to cliché, as has happened here. As an instrument the violin lends itself well to furious solos, so the transition from classical musician to rock god is easy – throw in some long shaggy hair and stubble and sunglasses and we’ve basically got ourselves a Georgian Ozzy Osbourne. Not that the film is terribly anarchic. Early on we get some Dogma 95-influenced hand-held camera and hack ‘n’ slash editing but it soon gives way to familiar period stageyness.

Rose’s film exists in the same realm as Milos Forman’s Amadeus and touches on some of the same themes – genius emerging from chaos, both a creative and destructive force – but it’s a relatively shallow movie, and one whose TV budget cannot be elevated by its impressively crashing classical soundtrack and its smoggy capital exteriors. Forman’s film had a force-of-nature at its centre in the form of Tom Hulce. The Devil’s Violinist has David Garrett, who’s a wonderful violinist but no actor. Alarm bells ring when a character is meant to be thinking hard about something and actually grabs their chin.

But then, could any actor have provided a sympathetic portrayal? How charming is any man this juvenile; this unprofessional? Why should we care for a man who whinges about being “misunderstood” in one breath then dismisses his fans with the next? How do we side with someone who claims to love another and then accidentally shags a complete stranger with the same hair colour? Better writing and an actual actor might have helped us answer these questions.

Garrett isn’t very well-supported, to be fair. Harris turns a scheming snake into a pantomime villain. Joely Richardson is gobsmackingly miscast as a cockney troublemaker. And while Alien Isolation fans may be pleased to see Andrea Deck in her full feature debut, I wouldn’t expect the scripts to start piling on her doormat on the basis of this. But then, again, Charlotte is bafflingly written: she’s genuinely repulsed by Paganini – a player and a player – only to spin on a sixpence once she hears him knock out a few notes, melody apparently trumping manners.

Rose has a firm hold of his film’s darkly humorous tone, and the musical performances are, inevitably, spectacular (almost worth the rental fee alone, if for some reason an actual David Garrett Live DVD isn’t available). But the decision to build a movie around a real musician backfires horribly, and with a bland and over-familiar script (“Who is the real you?” one character genuinely asks) it has to go down as a handsome, tuneful failure.

The devil and Paganini
The film is good even if i ido not considered a true version of Paganini’s life. I know it is not a documentary but it could have been done more.

I appreciate the effort to show real characters like Paganini’s son and father but otherwise it is very fictional and there was no real need for it because his life was already a novel.

From unbridled success to accusations of a pact with the devil there was a lot to tell. In a way they tried with the figure of Urbani one of the most successful and enigmatic characters in the film but otherwise I didn’t see much.

They recounted one episode of his life (the London concert) while the rest were shown in a few scenes as if they were in a hurry to finish the film.

Other Information:

Original Language de
Runtime 2 hr 2 min (122 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 11294
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Biography, Drama, Musical
Director Bernard Rose
Writer Bernard Rose
Actors David Garrett, Jared Harris, Joely Richardson
Country Germany, Italy
Awards 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

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Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
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