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The Concert
A French comedy about Andrei (Alexeï Guskov), a cleaning man at the Bolshoi orchestra in Moscow. Thirty years ago he was the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi, but was fired for hiring Jewish musicians.
When Andrei intercepts a fax from the Châtelet Theater in Paris inviting the Bolshoi orchestra to play, he concocts a devious plan to return to glory. He bands together a bunch of out-of-work musicians to perform in Paris in their place.
Starring Aleksei Guskov, Mélanie Laurent, Dmitri Nazarov, Valeriy Barinov, François Berléand
Directed by Radu Mihaileanu ('Va, vis et deviens', 'Les pygmées de Carlo')
Written by Radu Mihaileanu, Matthew Robbins, Alain-Michel Blanc, Héctor Cabello Reyes, Thierry Degrandi
Music, Comedy | 1hr 59mins | Rated (M) | Contains Offensive Language | Origin: France, Italy, Romania, Belgium, Russia | Language: French and Russian | Official Site »
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Empire (UK)
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More sentimental, less spiky than Mihaileanu's stock-in-trade, Le Concert is an enjoyable take on the underdogs genre. And Laurent and the music are sublime.
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New York Times
The harder this desperately obsequious circus of a movie tries to entertain, the more it falls short.
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Variety (USA)
The story regurgitates the usual trappings of underdog tales, milking stereotypes as well as tear ducts.
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