When The Film Plays Its Range The Piano
The piano has attracted<and still attracts many filmmakers who give it a central role or anecdotal. In film, he sometimes serves as a backdrop for a scene in search of inspiration or perfectly illustrates the story of a middle class of the past. Sometimes it takes an educational role, but in this case, it is rarely seen as an easy tool, but rather as the center of an ideology of thinking in which the pianist is being portrayed as a troubled or deeply obscure. They are often portrayed as beings of exceptions, gifted, rarely frivolous or light.
I have often smiled at the vision of a pianist who is able, talking, playing with a relaxed technically difficult piece or an improvisation that would not have denied a renowned jazz pianist. If the film takes as much trouble to depict the reality of a scene, details of a suit why he lets himself go as much as it is implausible to treat music on the screen? This is all the more intolerable when it is at the center of the story. But what is the response from advisers in making a film? Is there a lack of consultation? Even for films “serious” or “ambitious”, there is considerable room for interrogation. Many incongruities arise here or there, without the glare.
Do not forget that the viewer is not a musician in power and he has a good chance of taking for granted what he sees on the screen, the actor to be convincing or not its role as a musician. Ultimately, the film serves more often the music he does boast in confusing the viewer’s artistic vision. I always thought that the primary purpose of the quality of a film was to entertain intelligently preserving the story as fact, a certain authenticity.
When music is used as a means of pageantry, it generally helps to strengthen the emotional note in history. In projecting his soundscape with small touches, the music somehow manipulates the sensitivity of the unconscious person who attends the show. She carries most often in scenes or situations that do not fit in any reality. This can be authentic as a dance number performed by real dancers, is sometimes inappropriate or ridiculous when a player tries to play the role of a musician with more or less successfully.
A film like “The Pianist”, showing some moments of real performers, a vision is rare in the cinema (various shots including overhanging leave no room for any ambiguity between the reality of what we see, this we hear and fiction).
Nevertheless, perhaps because the film today is rooted in a kind of reality show, the viewer does not have the same dreams as before or that his attention is not focused on the same values, the 7th art has undeniable efforts to make credible vision of the musician performs on the screen.
The films selected here are not the glory of the piano but without his presence, those stories of today or yesterday would not have existed or would have been meaningless.
CLASSIFICATION OF FILMS BY YEAR OF OUTPUT
HISTORY: TOKYO SONATA is a portrait of an ordinary Japanese family. The father, dismissed without notice, hides from his family. The eldest son is increasingly absent. The youngest is taking piano lessons in secret. And the mother, helpless, could only see a flaw is invisible destroying her family …
Preview: Tokyo Sonata Kiyoshi Kurosawa (2009) – Trailer – duration: 1 minute 41 – file size: 9 MB – Format: flv
HISTORY: a variation on learning the piano between two talented teenagers: the son of a good family, another child of the streets but in common with Mozart and Chopin.
Excerpt: Piano Forest Masayuki Kojima (2009) – duration: 1 min 30 – file size: 6.4 MB – Format: flv
HISTORY: coming to study piano at the Conservatoire de Lyon, a young girl falls prey to his landlady, a childhood friend, a medical student who lost his father and was abandoned by her mother. The blonde Hitchcock demonstrates a strong desire for sexual brown flesh, who prefers boys and proves it by bringing a specimen in his room. Jealousy and untimely reconciliations body of predator who fails to bewitch an ingenue at first tenant, who overcomes his discomfort by leaving the apartment, returning to his family, endangers his love life. It will stand the harassment she suffered by fanning his love of art, while the love numb choose an extreme act.
Excerpt: I’d eat Laloy Sophie (2009) – duration: 1 min 30 – file size: 5 MB – Format: flv
STORY: Johan Sebastian Bach moved to Leipzig with his family to serve as lead singer in the prestigious School of Santo Tomás. Bach, a staunch devotee and tireless worker, is a modest man and his social position is far from ideal. The recognition of his music has not yet taken place, the talent of his compositions will grow with time and Bach reach the glory in future ages. Around this point, almost anecdotal, weaves a dense web of parallelism between art, history, and especially, the work and discipline involved in creating music. Music as integral part of the story.
Preview: The silence before Bach Pere Portabella (2008) – duration: 1 minute 40 – file size: 4 MB – Format: flv
HISTORY: sixty years, Traude Krüger teaches piano to inmates. When she meets Jenny, a young woman imprisoned for murder, she immediately understood it was dealing with a prodigy musician. Fascinated by the talent of the young girl, Traube wants to prepare for the competitive entrance examination at the Conservatory. But the young woman, violent and suicidal, is impervious to any discipline. Stubborn, old Traude Krüger does not yet disarmed.
Preview: 4 Minutes by Chris Kraus (2008) – duration: 2 minutes – file size: 5 MB – Format: flv
HISTORY: Vitus is almost an alien: he has the perfect pitch, he plays the piano beautifully and it already consumes all volumes of the encyclopedia at the age of kindergarten. No wonder his parents covet him a career of more ambitious: indeed, Vitus to become a pianist. But the young genius prefers to play in the carpentry of his stubborn grandfather, he dreams of flying and have a child the most normal. Ultimately, Vitus hang their own lives, which will not happen without a few flakes …
Trailer: Vitus by Fredi M. Murer (2006) – duration: 2 minutes 07 – file size: 16.1 MB – Format: wmv