Friday 23 October 2009

Amadeus

Wow.

Really.

Sublime, subtle, powerful. A pure joy to watch from start to finish, from the impish yet self possessed and obsessive Mozart portrayed by Tom Hulce to the covetous Salieri played by F Murray Abraham.

This movie beautifully charts the unnatural ability of the cocksure Mozart as he struggles to survive against the intrigues of Salieri, a man driven mad by his lifelong desire to be everything that the vulgar Mozart seems to have swaggered into.

Whilst technically true that this story is not historically accurate (the devout Salieri marrying in 1774 and fathering 8 children in real life) history only ever records fragments of any story, and since to this day no one knows where Mozart is actually buried I think it is safe to allow a bit of artistic interpretation.

The DVD Directors Cut may seem a tad long for some, but believe me it is worth watching.

Rating: S (And I don't do that often)