The Silence Before Bach (movie)
Die Stille vor Bach- User score: 7.3
- Production country: Spain
- Producer: Pere Portabella
- Production companies: Films 59
- Genre: Music
- Release date: 12/21/2007
- Run time: 102 min.
Movie description
This latest feature from the eccentrically experimental Catalan director Portabella is a beautiful, sometimes faintly bonkers celebration and contemplation of the role Bach’s music plays in the world today. Blending historical reconstruction with very loosely linked ‘dramatic’ scenes and documentary sequences, the film constitutes a playful, painterly sequence of variations on the argument that Johann Sebastian changed the way the world hears thanks to his extraordinary ear for harmony.
