Matters of the Heart

Though this movie is not so much evaluated or taken it up as movie topics in Japan, I like it and saw it twice on Video in recent. Japanese title is "a Requiem to my lover", I think it is really right title and remain deeply in my heart forever. The secne in which she is about to die in her bed in the hospital and try to listen to his performance in Piano Competition from radio stirs me up so strong!

It's 9/10 cause it makes me cried for what happened to the main character,it makes me wanted to make my own remake of this...by writing my own plot part 2...i wish Hadley...how i wish...what a terrible movie,it makes u cried, flutter and wide eyed.i am not really satisfied to the ending,but Jane Seymour is really really beautiful,she is absolutely Good at her roles...Jane seymour hands up to you,Chris did good job as well,Thanks to this masterpiece,i really really do love this so much but 9/10 coz Hadley....in the ending...

The answer is "No" the actors are not playing the piano. The most telling clue is the hands are located in the wrong registers relative to the music when you see them playing. The close ups show the hands of at least two others who knows how to play the pieces, but the effort expended does not match the soundtrack. If you want to see a better match of actor, stand-in player, and musical dubbing, go see The Seventh Veil, if you can find it on a movie channel.

Otherwise, this is a fairly standard TV movie of a nearly burned out artist who finds a protégé and some emotional fulfillment in a talented young man, Steven.

I guess this was a weeper of the week back in the heyday of 1970's TV movies. Lots of chances to exercise and practice acting, but not enough time to fully develop the story or characters.

The building used for Hadley's house is in Montecito, CA: 34°26'38.5"N 119°39'13.7"W

Not a *really* bad performance, but this formula movie didn't have any surprises. Jane Seymour does a great job as the recluse musician, but the story does not even nearly rise to her level. Christopher Gartin does have his moments making all the goofy mistakes that an 18-year-old really makes.

n.b. in the 1990's, there were no rich famous people driving MGA's.