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The Song of Names
2019 1h 54m PG-13
Drama
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Mystery
,
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6.5
39%
90%
68%
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Several years after his childhood friend, a violin prodigy, disappears on the eve of his first solo concert, an Englishman travels throughout Europe to find him.
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Directed By
François Girard
Written By
Jeffrey Caine
Studio
Serendipity Point Films
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Cast of The Song of Names
Tim Roth
Martin Simmonds
Clive Owen
Dovidl Rapoport
Catherine McCormack
Helen Simmonds
Eddie Izzard
Radio Presenter
Saul Rubinek
Feinman
Jonah Hauer-King
Dovidl 17-23
Gerran Howell
Martin 17-21
Luke Doyle
Dovidl 9-13
Misha Handley
Martin 9-13
Stanley Townsend
Gilbert
Julian Wadham
Arbuthnot Bailey
Richard Bremmer
Billy
Max Macmillan
Peter Stemp
Matt Devere
Milkman
Amy Sloan
Enid Simmonds
Tamás Puskás
Professor Carl Flesch
Jakub Kotyński
Zygmunt Rapoport
Schwartz Zoltán
Jozef Weschler
István Darvas
Bar Mitzvah Rabbi
Alex Bisping
Warsaw Taxi Driver
Lidia Bogaczówna
Asylum Nurse
Magdalena Cielecka
Anna Wozniak
Zsófi Tóth
Young Anna Wozniak
Joanna Caplan
Broche Rapoport
Jesse Noah Gruman
Zygmunt Rapoport (7)
Howard Jerome
Katzenberg
Chaim Paskesz
Frumkin
Pinchasz Weisberger
Chaim Frumkin
Daniel Mutlu
Young Rebbe
Declan Hannigan
Desk Clerk
Wayne Brett
Security Man
Jack Martin Haendler
1986 Conductor
Ralph Berkin
Orchestra Manager Sanderson
Jeffrey Caine
Tom Noble
Tamás Masa
Sabbathsong Klezmer Band
Bálint Szabó
Sabbathsong Klezmer Band
Izsák Farkas
Sabbathsong Klezmer Band
Sándor Csányi
Sabbathsong Klezmer Band
Endre Kertész
Sabbathsong Klezmer Band
György Szentkirályi
Sabbathsong Klezmer Band
Zoltán Langer
Sabbathsong Klezmer Band
Szabolcs Andrasics
Sabbathsong Klezmer Band
The Song of Names Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
There's a mystery at the heart of "The Song of Names," but it isn't much of a mystery, and once it's solved, the movie loses what little interest it has.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
Is a mediocre film worth seeing for a single magnificent sequence that only works properly in context? Here's the test case.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
Literate, sober, soulful.
Arizona Republic
Barbara VanDenburgh
Far from heightening the sense of mystery, the flashback construction renders the present-day dramatically inert, giving fine actors little to do save deliver exposition.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
A payoff is coming - you know it from the film's opening credits, or its poster - but it takes so long to reveal itself that when it does, it can't help but feel anticlimactic.
Slant Magazine
Michael Joshua Rowin
In the end, the film is unable to bridge the gap between the emotions it elicits and the messages it imparts.
New York Times
Ben Kenigsberg
The movie never quite justifies the contrivance of its puzzle-box construction. Parlaying this material into an arty whodunit cheapens the real history invoked.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
[The Song of Names] remains among the better serious, adult-oriented films of this holiday season.
TheWrap
Simon Abrams
The kind of mediocre Holocaust drama that used to be taken more seriously in the 1990s, partly thanks to the Weinstein brothers and Miramax.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Amy Nicholson
It's a fine kind of film. It feels like a classic, Oscar-baity film of yesteryear.
Hollywood Reporter
Leslie Felperin
It's lucky Shore's original compositions here and the cuts from the classical repertoire, some performed with impressive skill by child actor Luke Doyle himself, are strong enough to give heft to an otherwise earnest, credulity-straining melodrama.
Variety
Scott Tobias
A fatally old-fashioned and lugubrious historical drama, muting the emotional payoff it labors so hard to deliver.
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
...often excessively generic and bland...
KDHX (St. Louis)
Martha K. Baker
[François] Girard knows music, he knows grief, and he names names in The Song of Names.
Niagara Gazette
Michael Calleri
Drama isn't supposed to be comfortable. Comedy is comfort food. Drama is for adults who can handle a few roadblocks.
Asheville Movies
Edwin Arnaudin
Dovidl's and Martin's dynamic shines throughout the film, bolstered by the rarity of three different sets of actors who excel both individually and as a unit.
Elements of Madness
Douglas Davidson
Ordinarily these stories focus on the ones in the ghettos or camps, but Lebrecht's tale is of a survivor and the weighted responsibility that surviving bears. It is ... a beautiful, poignant expression of faith, family, and the persistence of a people.
The Only Critic
Nate Adams
"The Song of Names" - though respectable in certain elements - is filled with poor storytelling techniques and a sloppy altering timeline narrative that even two strong performances from Tim Roth and Clive Owen can't help.
Good Times Santa Cruz
Lisa Jensen
An often-moving meditation on the purpose and privilege of artistic expression.
Third Coast Review
Lisa Trifone
It all culminates in a full-circle moment that the film hasn't earned in any way at all.
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