It is always a very pleasant change to see and hear great music presented on the cinema screen or on a movie's DVD. I loved all the music selected for "The Competition", but I guess it was simply inevitable that this film would fail at the box-office. The tastes of critics and concert=goers are not only quite different but miles apart from the interests and concerns of the average movie audience.
As for me, I loved the music but was not so keen on the movie itself. The plot's idea was certainly a promising one, but it is developed in a disappointing and rather pedestrian fashion. Clumsy and rather feeble direction does not help matters, although I must admit that despite all, the movie does have some fine moments of music and novelty.
I also must admit that I especially enjoyed the Prokofieff concerto. This is very spectacularly played, but, as said above, somehow I cannot see movie patrons in Dudleyville, Idaho, applauding with anything like the same gusto and enthusiasm as the audiences in the movie itself.
As for me, I loved the music but was not so keen on the movie itself. The plot's idea was certainly a promising one, but it is developed in a disappointing and rather pedestrian fashion. Clumsy and rather feeble direction does not help matters, although I must admit that despite all, the movie does have some fine moments of music and novelty.
I also must admit that I especially enjoyed the Prokofieff concerto. This is very spectacularly played, but, as said above, somehow I cannot see movie patrons in Dudleyville, Idaho, applauding with anything like the same gusto and enthusiasm as the audiences in the movie itself.