Copying Beethoven

Bland, far from historic truth and overall not worth anybody's time. Listening to Beethoven's music, played by a decent orchestra, is a much better way to spend your time, money and thoughts.

I liked the movie. I think the setting might be a fair representation which included pee pots and some rats and mice in Beethoven's apartment. It is easy to understand that Anna Holtz is a fictional character but she still speaks volumes about how Beethoven composed his 9th symphony with aid of copiers. And again how the first concert of the 9th was presented and who was in attendance. I was particularly moved by all the young women who sang in a choir at the height of the symphony. That was a moving moment for me.

the next time they will invent a woman around Tesla life for his inventions haha , pathetic ! they should make a great film about real great women like Marie Curie and her inventions with her own rights, instead of narrating senseless fake tales !

One of my favorite cinematic tropes is when an artist debuts a shockingly original piece of music, like Buddy Holly at the beginning of the 1978 biopic, and audience members are in such a state of shock they do double takes—as numerous people do here during the first performance of the 9th Symphony, a shaky cam sequence (and the best scene in the otherwise middling melodrama) that takes up a hefty 25 minutes, or a full quarter of the movie's runtime. Happy 250th Birthday, ol' Ludwig Van!

Though flawed in historical accuracy in coming up with a fictional amanuensis to Beethoven, the earthshaking fifteen-minute long enaction of Ninth Symphony is the centrepiece of Agnieszka Holland's interpretation of the maestro's last days premiering the masterwork, tortured by deafness and abandonment.

Why do we have to invent strong women characters when there isn't historical evidence of them?

Disgustingly sexist movie. Demeaning to women composers everywhere. Especially when Beethoven asks Anna to wash him, and she agrees. My God. And worst, that she "does not understand" his Grosse Fugue at the end. I could go on...watched this with a male friend - reading this, David? I hated it. But was too polite to say so.

One of greatest movies I ever see

Copying Beethoven is a cinematic masterpiece that early critics have failed to understand and instead critic not on how well the movie was made but seemingly based off a previous grudge with the director. The flowing cinematography connects to Beethoven's idea that art never ends it flows, camera motion flowing from one shot to another. The attention to detail in the soundscape was superb and the acting, while there was a few bad apples, was nearly perfect. This was not to be a historically accurate piece, and should not be treated as such.

Copying Beethoven brings its period faithfully to life, but it relies too heavily on Ed Harris and Diane Kruger's amazing performances to carry a flawed narrative.