Love & Justice: In the Footsteps of Beethoven's Rebel Opera

February. 15,2023      
Rating:
5.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Kerry Candaele’s second Beethoven film (after Following the Ninth) explores the composer’s only opera, Fidelio, through the lens of a contemporary political context: the long shadow of Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile. Jorge Pena Hen was a composer and conductor. He was also among the tens of thousands arrested and killed after the coup which brought down the democratically-elected socialist Allende government. Restaging Fidelio in an abandoned factory in Valparaíso, Candaele meets Pena Hen’s granddaughter, Maria, who dedicates her art form — Butoh dance — to memorializing her grandfather, and sees surprising echoes of the opera in her tale. Love & Justice has it all: Beethoven’s stirring music and singing, history, politics, but above all it’s an inspiring testament to the enduring power of creativity and artistic expression, even in the hardest times.

Reviews

SpuffyWeb
2023/02/15

Sadly Over-hyped

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Supelice
2023/02/16

Dreadfully Boring

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Breakinger
2023/02/17

A Brilliant Conflict

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Stephan Hammond
2023/02/18

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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