Sonetto

I have seen this film twice. While it certainly was not a great picture, it was enjoyable, it was poignant, it was plausible, the young leads were charming, the older man intense. The soundtrack was the biggest minus for this movie, instrumentation harsh & tinny (if that is possible) electric guitar, boiler plate instrumentals would have been better, in my opinion. I've seen much worse. The second time around I paid attention to details I had missed the first time. If I were making the film myself, I would have changed a number of things, but since it has already been made, I have to say I'll even watch it again if it comes around on one of the movie channels I subscribe to.

It has been three years (18 December 2005) since drednm posted a review that characterized Wanda Landowska as an organist playing the harpsichord. In fact Landowska was first and foremost a harpsichordist without equal in the time in which she lived (1879 – 1959) and almost single-handedly revived the harpsichord as an instrument. While watching the movie just now I noticed the hunched over small figure and the rapidity and precision of her playing. I was pretty certain it was Landowska and a search of the web confirmed this. I also found the review by drednm and ascertained that apparently no one had corrected the statement that she was an organist playing the harpsichord. In fact I could find no reference to her as an organist, only as a pianist and harpsichordist. Without correction, someone might assume that the information given was accurate.