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Copying Beethoven
Directed by
Agnieszka Holland
PG-13
2006
1h 44m
Drama
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Biography
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6.7
28%
56%
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A fictionalized account of the last year of Beethoven's life.
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Cast of Copying Beethoven
Ed Harris
Ludwig van Beethoven
Diane Kruger
Anna Holtz
Matthew Goode
Martin Bauer
Phyllida Law
Mother Canisius
Ralph Riach
Wenzel Schlemmer
Bill Stewart
Rudy
Angus Barnett
Krenski
Viktoria Dihen
Magda
Matyelok Gibbs
Old Woman
Karl Johnson
Stefan Holtz
Joe Anderson
Karl van Beethoven
Agnieszka Holland
Director
Stephen J. Rivele
Writer
Christopher Wilkinson
Writer / Producer
Kasia Adamik
Writer
Michael Taylor
Producer
Alex Lewis
Producer
Bruce Webb
Producer
Copying Beethoven Ratings & Reviews
Village Voice
Luke Y. Thompson
Beethoven turns out to be like every obnoxious self-absorbed creative type you've ever met
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
The movie is completely beguiling, and it delivers joy, the beautiful spark of the gods.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
Someday someone will make a great movie about an immortal composer, but for now the best movie about any Beethoven I've ever seen stars a Saint Bernard.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Always an intelligent presence on screen, Harris here embraces the challenge of showing us the man behind the wall of music.
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
You may walk out of Copying Beethoven humming the movie. But that's not the same as singing its praises.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
...Tin-eared script and tone-deaf direction sabotages a fortissimo performance by Ed Harris in the title role.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
It was audacious of the filmmakers to imagine they could build a story and characters around the creation of the Ninth Symphony that would play as dramatically as the music.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Agnieszka Holland directs with obvious feeling rather than cynicism, and I was swept away by it despite the story's anachronisms.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Harris saunters through this toasty little piece of biographical fiction in love with the part's fixins'.
Arizona Republic
Richard Nilsen
It's a pointless movie, except for Harris.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
In Copying Beethoven Ed Harris proves an ideal substitute for the deaf, brooding composer, acting with a violent turbulence that sometimes floods the room.
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
It reduces Beethoven to a moldy clich.
Philadelphia Inquirer
David Patrick Stearns
What makes this film float -- if at times just barely -- is the characterization of Beethoven by Harris and the Christopher Wilkinson script.
San Jose Mercury News
Bruce Newman
A feminist fantasy that you can either embrace -- as director Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa) seems to have done with an unbecoming schoolgirl gushiness -- or repeatedly be pulled out of the story by its falseness.
Newsday
Gene Seymour
If you're going to tackle Ludwig van Beethoven, you've got to go as hard and high as he did. All this movie does is flounder and flail around his tempestuous spirit.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A movie with some flaws but also with moments of beauty and intensity most other films can't match.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
If Harris scores another Academy Award nomination for his role, it'll be for the quantity rather than the quality of his acting.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
So many of the films I see lack any obvious passion, or sense of theatrical flair, and whatever its flaws, Copying Beethoven does not stint on those.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
As LvB, Harris is intense, and intensely bewigged.
Slant Magazine
Jason Clark
Will there ever be a decent movie made about any part of Ludwig van Beethoven's life?
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