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- Based on a novel by the classical music critic Norman Lebrecht, and directed by François Girard (“The Red Violin”), the film alternates between two timelines.
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Jan 1, 2002 · Norman Lebrecht. 3.60. 1,326 ratings105 reviews. Martin Simmonds’ father tells him, “Never trust a musician when he speaks about love.” The advice comes too late. Martin already loves Dovidl Rapoport, an eerily gifted Polish violin prodigy whose parents left him in the Simmonds’s care before they perished in the Holocaust.
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Feb 10, 2004 · A confident first novel (and Whitbread Prize winner) from veteran English music journalist/author Lebrecht ( Covent Garden, 2001, etc.) ranges widely through classical music, Jewish culture, and wartime London. It’s 1939, and narrator Martin Simmonds is the only child of middle-class Jews, his father a music publisher and impresario.
Sep 12, 2019 · Director: Francois Girard. Screenwriter: Jeffrey Caine, based on a novel by Norman Lebrecht. Producers: Robert Lantos, Lyse Lafontaine, Nick Hirschkorn.
Dec 25, 2019 · Based on a novel by Norman Lebrecht (the screenplay is by Jeffrey Caine) and directed by François Girard, “The Song of Names” is a pointed demonstration that “survivor’s guilt” is a rather more complex state than the slightly glib phrase suggests.
Dec 23, 2019 · Director François Girard is no stranger to movies involving music: He wrote and directed the singular 1993 biopic “Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould” and 1998’s Oscar-winning “The Red...
Aug 7, 2020 · Published: August 7, 2020. |. Mixed Media, Movie. |. Jenny deGroot. The Song of Names is another violin story from Francois Girard, the director of The Red Violin.
Dec 24, 2019 · Based on a novel by the classical music critic Norman Lebrecht, and directed by François Girard (“The Red Violin”), the film alternates between two timelines. THE SONG OF NAMES | Official ...
