Coda

...If it's beautiful. It is. Put away the Fast and Furious and watch some acting if you dare.

I loved the film which shows the power of this music to inspire others. Patrick Stewart plays Henry Cole, an aging concert pianist, possibly modeled on Alfred Brendel, dealing with psychological problems interfering with his performances. Katie Holmes plays a young writer for the New Yorker who wants to write a profile about Henry.

In addition to great performances by Stewart and Holmes, the minor characters are superbly done, especially one of the staff of a hotel in Switzerland where Cole is staying.

If you don't love classical music, particularly the music for solo piano by Beethoven, Bach (and many others) don't bother with this film. Even if you do love this kind of music, you might find it rather slow.

Well staged dramatization of uncertainty and decline in a gifted artist. The photography is outstanding and nuanced. Patrick Stewart and Katie Holmes are excellent.

Rare to see such deep movie with beautiful piano music and story and scenery. I do feel it's just an art movie with not boring storyline of a pianist and journalist. Also, if you get some age, you will feel something.

The actors and acting are good, and in some moments you might feel the sorrow or the sadness or uncomfortableness of the characters, but something is off. It's a calm movie, and music plays on the background most of the time and it's enjoyable, also the scenary is nice, but the timings and the plot seems empty. I had the expectations to get inside the main character, but all I got was only some glimpses, and sentences "I feel like...", without actually presenting what it means for that person to say it, what it really means to lose something, to gain something. It's as if you literally are watching someone without really ever getting into their minds. And I miss the empathy, I couldn't connect, I couldn't even imagine what is means to feel "I feel like...".