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08/18/05
A Song for Martin (2002)
85 %
Reviews Counted: 27 Fresh: 23 Rotten:4 Average Rating: 7.3/10
Consensus:
Grueling but honest depiction about the ravages of Alzheimer's. Yep, it's a downer.
Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins
Synopsis: Danish director Bille August's (PELLE THE CONQUEROR) touching tale is about finding a great love and losing it too quickly. Barbara (Viveka Seldahl), the first violinist in a Swedish philharmonic, is immediately, deeply attracted to Martin Fischer (Sven Wollter), a famous composer who is... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Viveka Seldahl, Sven Wollter, Reine Brynolfsson, Lisa Werlinder, Linda Kallgren
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August ... steers this story to its stirring conclusion with firm lack of sentimentality.
07/19/03
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07/16/03
It may sound like a mere disease-of- the-week TV movie, but A Song For Martin is made infinitely more wrenching by the performances of real-life spouses Seldahl and Wollter.
06/06/03
Upsetting and thought-provoking, the film has an odd purity that doesn't bring you into the characters so much as it has you study them.
11/15/02
It's so downbeat and nearly humorless that it becomes a chore to sit through -- despite some first-rate performances by its lead.
10/18/02
Director-writer Bille August ... depicts this relationship with economical grace, letting his superb actors convey Martin's deterioration and Barbara's sadness -- and, occasionally, anger.
10/18/02
Full of unforgiving irony and quiet realism, A Song for Martin stands as a powerful and moving achievement.
08/31/02
Martin and Barbara are complex characters -- sometimes tender, sometimes angry -- and the delicate performances by Sven Wollter and Viveka Seldahl make their hopes and frustrations vivid.
08/15/02
A delightfully simple, splendid love story between two older people ... a journey of life and love you won't want to miss.
08/01/02
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Viveka Seldahl and Sven Wollter will touch you to the core in a film you will never forget -- that you should never forget.
07/18/02
The movie, for all its sincerity, becomes clinical and repetitious, though its unsparing vision of the fragility of identity can give you a shudder.
07/11/02
An extraordinary Swedish film about the soul adventure of marriage -- the kind of intimate and character-driven film that Bille August does best.
06/28/02
This slow-moving Swedish film offers not even a hint of joy, preferring to focus on the humiliation of Martin as he defecates in bed and urinates on the plants at his own birthday party.
06/28/02
Mr. Wollter and Ms. Seldhal give strong and convincing performances, but neither reaches into the deepest recesses of the character to unearth the quaking essence of passion, grief and fear.
06/27/02
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