If you love Beethoven's music this film is worth seeing. The story
is fictional there being no evidence a woman worked as a copyist
for Beethoven. However, using the woman copyist as a device
the film tries to portray Beethoven as a real, tormented and difficult
man. Ed Harris is outstanding as Beethoven, but I cannot be sure
the portrait is a true one. Even so, I'm glad to have seen the film.