If Yaron Zilberman's film can't make Christopher Walken and co look like real string players, at least it understands the dynamics of a quartet
It's very difficult to make an actor look as if they can really play a string instrument. I once helped out on a photoshoot, posing a group of models to look like a string quartet. It was an impossible task.
Yaron Zilberman, the director of this film about a New York string quartet, has clearly made great efforts to get things right: each actor apparently spent hours working with music coaches. Sadly, their efforts haven't really been successful – the actors just seem to be moving their bows across the strings. Every time I saw them miming to the soundtrack, the film lost credibility.
This wasn't helped by the fact that the excerpts from the piece they spend a good deal of time playing (Beethoven's String...
It's very difficult to make an actor look as if they can really play a string instrument. I once helped out on a photoshoot, posing a group of models to look like a string quartet. It was an impossible task.
Yaron Zilberman, the director of this film about a New York string quartet, has clearly made great efforts to get things right: each actor apparently spent hours working with music coaches. Sadly, their efforts haven't really been successful – the actors just seem to be moving their bows across the strings. Every time I saw them miming to the soundtrack, the film lost credibility.
This wasn't helped by the fact that the excerpts from the piece they spend a good deal of time playing (Beethoven's String...
- 4/16/2013
- by Laura Barnett
- The Guardian - Film News
The Capital is buzzing with excitement, and it’s not just the Commonwealth Games. Performing in the Capital tonight is the one of Britain’s finest String Quartet — the Endellion String Quartet. Comprising Andrew Watkinson and Ralph de Souza playing the Violin, Garfield Jackson playing the Viola & David Waterman playing the Cello — the quartet have performed all over the world.Talking to Ht City about their India visit, Watkinson says, “We hope to see many young people in the audience as we have seen in previous concerts in India when we performed in Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore. This will be ...
- 10/1/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
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