
This real-life documentary explores the passionate & energetic presence of renowned Italian violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (she moved to the Unites States at the age of eight to study at The Curtis Institute of Music and later studied with Dorothy DeLay at The Julliard School.) The film focuses on her professional life, starting in 1981, when she burst onto the classical music scene as the youngest (at 17) recipient ever of the Walter W. Naumburg International Violin Comp... (Full plot summary below)
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This real-life documentary explores the passionate & energetic presence of renowned Italian violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (she moved to the Unites States at the age of eight to study at The Curtis Institute of Music and later studied with Dorothy DeLay at The Julliard School.) The film focuses on her professional life, starting in 1981, when she burst onto the classical music scene as the youngest (at 17) recipient ever of the Walter W. Naumburg International Violin Competition.
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| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranAn extraordinarily intimate, deeply affecting and revelatory documentary on how pain and passion can come together in a creative artist. |
| San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannHolds our attention by dispensing information gradually, like a piece of fiction. |
| New York Daily NewsJami BernardIf it doesn't shed much light on the violinist's personal life, it certainly conveys how personally she relates to her work. |
| The New York TimesStephen HoldenDraws a curtain over her intimate personal life. |
| New York PostRod DreherThe movie isn't bad, only scattered and incomplete. |
| L.A. WeeklyAlan RichThe less you know about the world of classical music and, specifically, about one of its more flamboyant denizens, the violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, the less the offense of Speaking in Strings. |
| San Francisco ExaminerAllan UllrichWhat mystifies, too, is the complete absence of information about Salerno-Sonnenberg's private life. |
| TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh(Salerno-Sonnenberg's) determination and resilience should speak to a broader audience. |
| Village VoiceRobert HilfertyA clumsy labor of love with unforgivable lapses...key footage is missing, and it fails to show why Salerno-Sonnenberg's controversial interpretations are so original and valid. |
| Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorConveys little sense of a connection, as if di Florio had made it mainly because she had access to a celebrity. |