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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Color • DVD-Video • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 2001 DVD Release : 12 August, 2003 |
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| Danish film director Bille August describes this film as a love story, although viewers are more likely to see it as a portrayal of the terrible toll of Alzheimer's disease on a spouse who is a survivor and caregiver. The Martin of the title (Sven Wollter) is a world-class composer and orchestra conductor, who is cut down by AD in the midst of an important project, the composition of a new opera. Also cut down are the expectations of the concertmaster violinist who has left her husband to become his second wife. Barbara (Viveka Seldahl), their idyllic love affair and Mediterranean honeymoon still fresh in her own memory, is left to struggle with his growing affliction, a daunting task that finds her emotionally abandoned as he retreats into a dark world of loss and confusion.
The impact on her is one of exhaustion, humiliation, and desperation, and we watch as the love that has bound her to him becomes the reserve of strength she must draw on, and she looks after him until she is finally unable do so. It is unfortunate perhaps that they have both left what seem to be happy families, with grown children, to start a second life together, because what happens to them becomes a kind of judgment for wanting a fuller and more rewarding life. The film's message is that despite adversity as extreme as this, deeply felt love still triumphs in some way, but it's hardly a way we're used to seeing in the movies. The DVD includes a director's commentary, in which August talks chiefly about the plot and character and very little about the making of the film itself. |
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