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The Red Violin
The story begins with a series of mysterious events awaiting Anna Rudolph and Niccolo Bossotti, a violinist, and his wife Anna Rodolvi. Anna asks her servant Siska to predict the vision of her unborn child. But it provides a reading of Anna's future using tarot cards. The first, the moon, indicates that Anna will live a long life. In the meantime, Nikolo created a new violin. He is about to color them when she discovers that she and the child have died. Nicol 'returns to his shop and prints the violin in red. The violin then makes its way to an orphanage in Austria.
13 April 1953
1960
12 November 1979, Beijing, China
1938, Wimbledon, Surrey, England, UK
1 October 1940, Geneva, Switzerland
10 August 1950, Jonquière, Quebec, Canada
18 February 1960, Milan, Lombardy, Italy
20 July 1971, Nepean, Ontario, Canada
July 02, 2003
entertains with fanciful fable and contains beautiful virtuoso violin solos (by Joshua Bell) and location shooting, but offers little substance
October 07, 2004
The story lines, while having little direct connection to historical events, are obviously grounded in musical and artistic legend.
January 01, 2000
a composition in five movements. Although the primary theme (the violin) ties all the segments together, it is but a thin string.
March 05, 2002
A spiritually rich and musically sublime drama about the soulful dimensions of beauty.
May 26, 2006
A surprisingly exciting and delicate epic.
October 10, 2004
François Girard ... with co-writer Don McKellar and an able cast, has spun a yarn that crosses all manner of boundaries: geographic, artistic, and taste.
July 02, 2004
It is disconcerting to see {Jackson}...after watching his exceptional performances as crazy criminals in two Quentin Tarantino movies.
August 15, 2013
Like the immaculate instrument it follows, "The Red Violin" is a piece of filmmaking fully refined by the hands of someone who believed in the material, and the effect it leaves us with is one of transcendence.
May 25, 2003
Derided by some contrarian critics for being "safe", this is an ambitious and at times uneven epic that stretches several continents and centuries . . .