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The Song of Names is a 2019 drama film directed by François Girard. [7] An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Norman Lebrecht, it stars Tim Roth and Clive Owen as childhood friends from London whose lives have been changed by World War II. [7] The film was nominated for nine Canadian Screen Awards, winning five.
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Jan 3, 2020 · It’s factually accurate, yet reductive, to call the elegiac new film “The Song of Names” a Holocaust story. The historical drama, which opened Friday, Jan. 3, and is based on a 2002 novel by cultural critic Norman Lebrecht, tells the story of a young Jewish violin prodigy from Warsaw, Dovidl Rapoport, from age 9 to 55.
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Principal photography for THE SONG OF NAMES took place over nine weeks in late 2018, starting with five days in London, followed by seven weeks of location and studio work in Budapest, Hungary, and a final week of location work in Montreal.
Dec 23, 2019 · In the late 1930s, just before the start of World War II, London music publisher Gilbert Simmonds (Stanley Townsend) agrees to take in Dovidl Rapoport (Luke Doyle), a 9-year-old Jewish violin ...
Dec 25, 2019 · The titular “Song of Names,” sacred music with a ritual function, is not merely explained but turns to a motif. Literate, sober, soulful, and considered as it is, the movie is also a little overly scrupulous in its tastefulness. “The Song of Names” doesn’t get its hands dirty; as crassly as young Dovidl behaves, as much of a chip on ...
Dec 24, 2019 · “The Song of Names” begins with a disappearance: In 1951, David Eli Rapoport, a violinist of around 21, is set to make a splash on the London stage. Born in Poland as Dovidl, Rapoport was, as a...
Sep 9, 2019 · Film Review: ‘The Song of Names’. Director François Girard returns to the musical mysteries of 'The Red Violin' with a historical drama that strikes too many bum notes. In the Jewish faith ...
