Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach

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A chronicle of Johann Sebastian Bach's life, eschewing drama to focus almost entirely on his music. Narrated by his wife Anna in voiceover, it consists largely of static scenes of Bach conducting and/or playing his brilliant compositions.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach:

Gustav Leonhardt
Christiane Lang
Paolo Carlini
Ernst Castelli
Hans-Peter Boye
Joachim Wolff

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A chronicle of Johann Sebastian Bach's life, eschewing drama to focus almost entirely on his music. Narrated by his wife Anna in voiceover, it consists largely of static scenes of Bach conducting and/or playing his brilliant compositions.

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AV Club - 9/10 by Ignatiy VishnevetskyThe Chronicle Of Anna Magdalena Bach disregards most conventions of costume drama to ask some very human questions about history, what it takes to be an artist, and what movies can tell us about ourselves.
Village Voice - 9/10 by Alan ScherstuhlStraub and Huillet invite us to ponder, as the music washes over us, what we can know and what we can't - and to wonder at what here is also false.
Hyperallergic - 9/10 by Ela BittencourtWhile the film is mostly focused on the music and the settings in which it was originally played, Anna Magdalena's voice guides us, providing the film's peculiar, illusive texture.
Slant Magazine - 8/10 by Fernando F. CroceThe Straubs' methods ultimately attest to their demand of viewer participation in their search for new forms of expression.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 8/10 by Dennis SchwartzI can't think of a musical biopic I liked better.
The Playlist - 6/10 by Joe BlessingStraub-Huillet both depict and impose such conditions on their viewers, making for a refreshing break from 2018.
User Review - 10/10 by Andrew RAustere, Brechtian, meditative ... truth at 32 frames per second.
User Review - 10/10 by Phillip GThis one really is from the movement: i saw, you didn't. well, i don't want to write a long review, but before watching this you must know that this is different than any other movie you ever watched. The movie will end and you will ask yourself: "what the hell i just saw?" then you will start thinking and you'll remember that the movie is about Bach, this is the beginning, but why that camera that never moves? That cruel cuts between scenes? That plans without faces almost all the time? Well, when you talk about Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach you must remember that the cinema has resources to bring the watcher to the screen, to make him closer to the character and that's what CoAMB has of different: the distance. you know Bach's face, you know his wife's face, she's the narrator of the story, fully of names that you, probably, won't give a face. The camera does not move (just in a few moments), and when it does isn't to get closer to Bach, as example, but to film the singer. All the resources that the cinema offers to bring the watcher are denied by Straub and Huillet to give emphasis to the music. There's no intimacy, no feelings in the edition, neither in the characters. See the poster here? "A Masterpiece. This Film is Music" it could not explain better by another way.
User Review - 10/10 by Tio BIn an age of dramatized "biopics" that are simplified, Hollywooden, and loaded with factual "embellishments," Straub and Huillet's demanding approach is a breath of fresh air on the G string. I want to see more of their films, NOW.
User Review - 10/10 by Private UA consummate example of cinematic austerity in deference to musical transcendence.

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