Helmer Agnieszka Holland's "Copying Beethoven" joins 1994's "Immortal Beloved" in the ranks of mediocre dramatic interpretations of Beethoven's biography. Best bet for distribs is pitch to middle-aged ...

AT THE CONVENT where the titular steno in “Copying Beethoven” goes to escape the tortures of her day job, the Mother Superior makes not so vague allusions to the treatment she received as a young girl ...

If ever there were a movie to do so, "Copying Beethoven" might actually justify two separate reviews. On one hand, the movie is a visually stunning, enormously powerful visitation of the brilliance of ...

You probably have to be a classical music buff or a sucker for period pieces to really enjoy “Copying Beethoven,” a fictionalized story about the great composer. This film has its share of silly ...

At the center of Agnieszka Holland’s flawed but often effective character study “Copying Beethoven” is a performance of the composer’s Ninth Symphony, and it’s a stirring demonstration of how music ...

Helmer Agnieszka Holland's "Copying Beethoven" joins 1994's "Immortal Beloved" in the ranks of mediocre dramatic interpretations of Beethoven's biography. Best bet for distribs is pitch to middle-aged ...

"Copying Beethoven" might just as logically be titled "Copying 'Amadeus.' "The 1984 film about the life of Mozart has become the standard to which all films about composers -- or any kind of artist -- ...

Finally, there is an “Orchestrating Copying Beethoven ” featurette, which basically tells of the making of the film. It focuses on set design and art direction a lot, which were in no way as opulent ...

Agnieszka Holland's profoundly silly Copying Beethoven belongs squarely in the "Aren't geniuses crazy?" school of cinematic biography. In a hysterical star-turn, Ed Harris plays Beethoven as Jackson ...

IF YOU'RE searching for a reason to attend this largely risible dramatisation of Ludwig van Beethoven's final days, you should be aware that it features a fascinating collision between two very ...

Following in the footsteps of Immortal Beloved, Myriad Pictures' Copying Beethoven is a fictionalized film about the eccentric, brilliant German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (played here with gusto ...

Dir: Agnieszka Holland. UK-Hung. 2006. 104mins. With Copying Beethoven,workmanlike director Agnieska Holland partiallyredeems herself for such embarrassing earlier Toronto misfires like Total Eclipse ...