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François Girard Several years after his childhood friend, a violin prodigy, disappears on the eve of his first solo concert, an Englishman travels throughout Europe to find him Cast=Eddie Izzard Year=2019 
Jeffrey Caine, Norman Lebrecht. Average rating 3. 59 1, 057 ratings 82 reviews, Start your review of The Song of Names Norman Lebrecht was already established as a Music commentator, and the author of a dozen books on Classical music when he startled the publishing industry with this first novel, which won the Whitbread award in 2002. The novel follows a friendship between two Jewish boys, starting before the Second World War and continuing far beyond. Martin was the son of a music publisher, and his friend Dovidl was Polish. They had a typical boys' friendship; competitive and fighting one moment, but fiercely... I found the book was quite special and full of depth. The writer addressed topics like friendship, bonding, love for music, dealing with the loss of family members in a remarkable way. Despite the bunch of difficult words and sentences, the book was easy to read and kept me longing to the end. I was touched multiple times by the way Lebrecht expresses feelings by using quite remarkable metaphors. The grief the Jews must have faced during the second world war came through right into my veins. I enjoyed this story and learned a bit about Jewish culture/religion as well as what people endured in the time of the Holocaust. It was an interesting plot also. "My life was a pathetic sonata built upon an unresolved chord, infinitely tense and unrewarding. Like an amputee, I never lost sensation in the missing limb, or the ache of deprivation. Not a day passed without a remembrance of wholeness" The Song of Names' is full of musical references, and tells the story of a friendship, a betrayal and delivers the promise of a resolution to the mystery. As the book begins, Martin, the narrator, is a sixty-something uninspired classical music promoter in an... A very good book with flashes of brilliance in observations about music & musicians & Jewish traditions & faith in the wake of the Holocaust. (Lebrecht is a lifelong music critic who here tries his hand- very successfully- at fiction. There are two main characters: the son of a musicians' manager who takes over his father's business; and the young vioilin prodigy that the former's family harbors as his family perishes in the concentration camps of WWII Poland. Here, the Holocaust... Norman Lebrecht is a British social critic and the author of several novels and works of non-fiction. One of his novels, The Song of Names" has been made into a movie, some 20 years after its publication. I haven't seen the movie yet; it hasn't opened but I did see a preview, which prompted me to read the book. "The Song of Names" is a book about the Holocaust, with a personal twist. It's the story of a young Polish Jewish genius violinist who is brought to London in the summer of 1939 by his... I was stoked to read this book-the review I read of it made it sound amazing. However, I was disappointed. I didnt even read it all the way through-I stopped and scanned. Sometimes I judge a book by how long it takes me to get through it: if I cannot put it down, or if I am savoring every chapter, turning the pages slowly, or if I am starting it over again to make it last are all indicators that it is a great book! None of this happened with this one. In fact, it was the opposite criteria that... Two Jewish boys befriend each other; one, Martin, is well off but feels like an outcast - he is very unhappy and lonely, is pudgy, and has a stutter. The other, David, is suave, confident, and is a violin virtuoso but is poor; his family is from Warsaw and sent him to study w/ a illustrious violin instructor in London when WWII interrupts all plans. He moves into a spare room w/ David's family, promoters of classical music. The two boys grow very close, both feeling like outcasts in different... Low 2. There is a poignant and very moving explanation behind the title of this book but unfortunately the author has not woven this idea into a novel which really captures the attention of the reader. The protagonist, Martin Simmonds, fails to engage the readers interest, while the all-too brief appearance and disappearance of the mysterious figure of Dovidl, the Polish violin prodigy who enters the home of the protagonists family during World War II, fleetingly elevates the novels appeal... I have to say that I didn't really enjoy this book. The story itself is a good one, but it just wasn't told well. I was bored most of the time and I didn't feel sympathy for or even like any of the characters, except perhaps the wife who was only a very minor character anyway. The story wasn't told chronologically which made especially the beginning quite boring. When I found out what the "Song of Names" actually was, it was a bit heart-stopping, but that was one of the few touching moments in... I think this book tries to be too many things. Some of them (a story of Jewish life and inter-communal pressures, an interesting discussion of class in Britain, a look at xenophobia during the war in Britain) it does well. Others (a story about likable people who do bad things or blame others for their problems) it doesn't do in such a winning manner. Overall, enjoyable. Would I read it again or recommend it? Not unless I knew a Yiddish speaking prodigy who'd relate. I thought this was excellent. I really enjoyed the writing, which had that dry, subtle, British wit. I also found the story interesting. The Jewish angle was refreshingly neither unduly negative nor ignorant. I'm looking forward to a good book club discussion, and I actually recommended it to the YIOP book club as well. A very good read indeed. Lebrecht has taken back and forth in time to good effect, keeping us constantly engaged with an excellent narrative. His knowledge of the world of classical music and the Jewish faith is well-used without any obvious parading of research and knowledge for its own sake. Highly recommended. As a classically trained musician I absolutely loved the musical descriptions in this book- the story itself was fascinating - loved this book! I feel that the author of this book has never heard of George Orwell's 5 Rules For Effective Writing, which includes the rule that one should never use a long word when a short one will do. The main characters in this book feel like they've swallowed dictionaries as small children and are spending the rest of their lives regurgitating them in long, philosophical preponderances (yes, I can play this game too. Tiring, isn't it. The children/teens are certainly the most well spoken I've ever come... This is an engrossing read, full of observations, witticisms and poignant truths. The plot is very engaging. Unfortunately, the narrator is a narcissistic cynic and not likeable- it is hard to rejoice in his successes or sympathize with his failures. So the wonderful inventions of the author in the plot, characters and settings lose much of their power in the dry and distant tellings of the narrator. Overall a worthwhile read but it leaves you a little cold. Read this book over 5 years ago. Fascinated by the inner world of musicians and the religious traditions of Judaism this was a perfect choice. However, so much more was found in this book. I often return to it in my thoughts. To the fragility of friendship between two boys and the brotherly love and the sense of calling. Very emotional and in the end, devastating. This book was all over the place and the writing style was not for me I tried to get into it but I just couldnt. This book could have definitely gone places and it just didnt it just pretty much stayed flat until the very end. Well written with a twist. Clever way of telling the story. Sagged in the middle. Read it because of movie publicity, glad I did. Lots of music information, like taking a very interesting classical musical course. Interesting and unique story. I didnt feel really connected to any of the characters, but did feel I was part of the story. Great read for classical music lovers, unique story with a Jewish historical background. Interesting twist at the end. Good plot, well-written but I was handicapped by not finding any of the characters the least bit likeable - hence 3 stars. I simply loved this book. Great story telling, interesting characters etc. I did like the contrast between traditional Jewish culture, our "modern" world and world of classical music. Martin is a boy living with his parents in pre-WWII London when another boy, David, a refugee from Poland, comes to lives with them. David is a musical prodigy, and Martin's father is in the business of representing musicians. Then, years after he has first arrived, after David has long been considered one of the family, and Martin's closest friend, he disappears. It happens on the day of his musical debut. Years later, when Martin is in his sixties, he believes he may have found out what... It was focused on the Jewish history of England during and after World War 2, first of all. It was also about the musical side of the world, I guess it focuses more on the violinists, so if youre a musical person, you would be interested with this book. The book taught me about some aspects of the religion, and the musical world, and it continued to interest me. Martin Simmonds is the narrator and it is his point of view/story that the whole book is about. The book begins with his elderly self... Martin L. Simmonds is the underachieving son of a music manager whose life changes forever when a Polish violin prodigy comes to live with his family during the World War II. But Dovidl's family perishes in the Holocaust, and Dovidl becomes more a part of the Simmonds family than Martin has ever felt. The two become like brothers, but on the day of his great public violin debut, Dovidl disappears, leaving the Simmonds family in a shambles and Martin without a sense of direction or hope. The... I struggle with rating books. because a number system never quite seems to do justice to the book. It is a beautiful novel, in many ways. The prose gorgeous. However, I just couldn't ever love, or even care that much, about the characters. something that is normally easy for me. They were all just so unbelievably self-involved, and not in an endearing way. While a story, in many ways, about childhood boy friendship. the characters just never seemed to really love one another; much more... Two Jewish boys befriend each other; one, Martin, is well off but feels like an outcast - he is very unhappy and lonely, is pudgy, and has a stutter. The two boys grow very close, both feeling like outcasts in different...
Le chant des oiseaux song. GIVE HIM OSCAR. 
Le chant des noms. Le chant des noms de domaine. Clive Owen and Tim Roth star in Francois Girard's drama about a Jewish musician who barely escaped Poland before the Holocaust and his adopted English brother. Clearly made by folks who are passionate about classical music, The Song of Names adapts music critic Norman Lebrecht's acclaimed novel of the same name for the big screen, producing — in the hands of director Francois Girard ( The Red Violin, Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould) and composer Howard Shore, among others — a Holocaust-themed requiem. It's lucky that Shore's original compositions here and the cuts from the classical repertoire, some performed with impressive skill by child actor Luke Doyle himself, are strong enough to give heft to an otherwise earnest, credulity-straining melodrama. But the globe-trotting story, starring Tim Roth and Clive Owen, is likely to appeal to specific demographics and could do alright as a niche release in select markets. Skittishly moving back and forth between scenes set at various points between the late 1930s and the mid- 80s, in chronological terms the story starts on the eve of World War II. Polish Jew Zygmunt Rapoport (Jakub Kotynski) has brought his son Dovidl (Doyle) a violin prodigy, to London in hopes of persuading one of his contacts there to help find a Jewish home where Dovidl would be safe from the Nazis. Impressed by the 9-year-old's gift, music publisher Gilbert Simmonds (Stanley Townsend) offers to take him in, even though the Simmonds family isn't Jewish and would have to make accommodations for the boy. Zygmunt returns to Warsaw, leaving Dovidl behind, to try and protect his wife and Dovidl's two sisters back in Poland, but they don't make it out before the Nazis invade. In London, Gilbert's son Martin (played first by Misha Handley until age 13, then Gerran Howell as a young man and Tim Roth as the middle-aged version) initially bridles over having to share a room with arrogant, mischievous Dovidl. But as the war rumbles on and Dovidl understandably worries about what might have happened to his family back in Poland, the two young men become as close as brothers. After the war, there's still no sign or word of the Rapoport family back in Warsaw, and, fearing the worst, Dovidl (now played by Jonah Hauer-King) renounces his religion and pours himself into honing his craft. But on a night that is to be his grand musical debut at an auditorium Gilbert has spent his life savings on in order to launch his ward's career, Dovidl simply doesn't show up and is never heard from again. All this is told in flashbacks, shuffled together with the '80s-set storyline in which Martin, now a musical examiner, notices a talented violinist (Max Macmillan) kiss his lump of rosin for good luck exactly the same way Dovidl used to. He becomes convinced the kid must have either been taught by Dovidl or someone else who was taught by him, and what do you know, he's right! Despite the discouragement of his wife Helen (Catherine McCormack) who also knew Dovidl back in the day but thinks he should let his quest go, Martin plows on in search of his old friend, schlepping from Poland to New York and back to London until he meets Clive Owen playing a key character and all is revealed. There is no denying that a sequence roughly halfway through where characters walk through the standing stones that memorialize the dead at the Nazi death camp Treblinka packs a wallop, especially with the accompaniment of Shore's keening, soaring score, one of his best. As a cinematic document that helps service the command written in many languages on one of those to stones to "Never Forget. this is a timely look at the horrors of the Holocaust. But some viewers may experience a few niggling doubts about how we're supposed to feel about some of the characters, like Dovidl, who no doubt suffers enormously but also inflicts suffering on nearly everyone around him. Perhaps the point is that we're meant to forgive his sins not just because of his suffering but also because of his talent, like the way some give Roman Polanski a pass because of what he went through in the war and for Chinatown? But any way you slice it, this is still a somewhat claggy, uneven work with stiff performances from the leads, both of whom seem to be sleep-talking lines as if they learned them in Yiddish first. The actors playing the younger versions of the characters shine more, especially in some of the show-stopping musical performance moments, such as a dueling fiddles scene set in an underground bomb shelter. Production companies: Serendipity Point Films, Lyla Films Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics Cast: Tim Roth, Clive Owen, Catherine McCormack, Jonah Hauer-King, Gerran Howell, Luke Doyle, Misha Handley, Stanley Townsend, Magdalena Cielecka, Eddie Izzard, Marina Hambro, Amy Sloan, Saul Rubinek, Richard Bremmer, Julian Wadham, Daniel Mutlu Director: Francois Girard Screenwriter: Jeffrey Caine, based on a novel by Norman Lebrecht Producers: Robert Lantos, Lyse Lafontaine, Nick Hirschkorn Executive producers: Mark Musselman, Randy Lennox, Peter Touche, Stephen Spence, Nadine Luque, Joe Iacono, Tibor Krsko, Anant Singh, Peter Watson, Jens Meurer, Klemens Hallman, Alan Howard, Christian Angermayer Director of photography: David Franco Production designer: Francois Seguin Costume designer: Anne Dixon Editor: Michel Arcand Music: Howard Shore Casting: Kirsty Kinnear, Pam Dixon, Susie Figgis Venue: Toronto International Film Festival (Gala Presentations) Sales: Hanway 113 minutes.
Le chant des nations. This movie honesty about marriage gonna make alot of men mgtow. Wow such a beautiful movie😍 Love is Love 🌈🌈🌈. Johnny Depp as a professor, YAAAAS. Le chant des noms horaire. Le chant des noms quartier latin. This song is so amazing, I can't wait for the full album. but can you upload the background picture for us, please? it's breathtaking. Glenn Kenny December 25, 2019 Its 1951, and a major musical event is about to enliven Londons classical scene. The evening depicted in this movies opening will feature a young violin virtuoso, Dovidl Rapaport, playing a program of Bruch and Bach. Dovidls friend Martin, a fellow in his early twenties like the absent violinist, tries to reassure the older folks around him that the musician wouldnt miss this date. But he does. And Martin never sees him again. More than 30 years later, this is still eating at the adult Martin, played by Tim Roth. Now a music teacher, married to his teen sweetheart, he finds himself intrigued by an auditioning would-be student who rosins his bow in a particular way. That way belonged to Dovidl, who, we learn in flashbacks, was an arrogant child prodigy left in the care of Martins father before the outbreak of World War II. The boy Dovidl is a disruptive Jew in a mode recalling that of Philip Roth. A self-proclaimed genius, he initially infuriates the buttoned-up young Martin. But they soon become the best of friends, and in England, young Dovidl is molded (insofar as he can be molded) by Martins doting father, whos grooming him for a career. Even as his family back in Poland is being shuttled to Treblinka. Advertisement Based on a novel by Norman Lebrecht (the screenplay is by Jeffrey Caine) and directed by François Girard, “The Song of Names” is a pointed demonstration that “survivors guilt” is a rather more complex state than the slightly glib phrase suggests. In his late adolescence, agonizing over the still-unknown fate of his family, Dovidl renounces Judaism and acts out in other ways. But his failure to show up for the concert that Martins father put his life into, and subsequent absence from Martins life, seems an inexplicable betrayal. Tim Roth plays the Martin of the 1980s with a controlled agony; its one of the actors most purposefully understated performances, and it makes the movie worth seeing. The adult Dovidl is played by Clive Owen, and since this is in part a detective story, I am hesitant to describe him in much detail except to say its Owen as youve never seen him before. The characters own agony derives from his definitive discovery of his familys fate—literally a life changing moment. The titular “Song of Names, ” sacred music with a ritual function, is not merely explained but turns to a motif. Literate, sober, soulful, and considered as it is, the movie is also a little overly scrupulous in its tastefulness. “The Song of Names” doesnt get its hands dirty; as crassly as young Dovidl behaves, as much of a chip on his shoulder the adult Martin carries, director Girard, whose filmography includes low-key meditations like “ The Red Violin ” and “33 Short Films About Glenn Gould, ” keeps things emotionally tamped down. In the case of Roths character, it gives the actor some new places to go. But in other respects, the approach, which is most pronounced in the sun-dappled wanderings over blitzed-out London by the two boys, feels slightly cramped and more than familiar. Reveal Comments comments powered by.
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Man, that last scene of awkward silence between two people who are parting ways is way too real
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Le chant de noms. 1 Time Out Swimming in a double-breasted suit against the Monday morning incoming tide, I feel a double misfit. The whole working world is flooding into town while I am heading out, and for no good reason. What is more, I am just about the only man on the forecourt in a respectable suit. Times have changed, and chinos are worn to work. Or whatever they call work. Sitting at a flickering screen, hunting and gathering data, strikes me as a poor substitute for the thrill of the chase, the joy of the kill, the kiss of conquest. There is no romance, no mortal struggle, in digitised so-called work. It is a virtual pursuit, without real vice or virtue. Mine, on the other hand, is a people profession, hence almost obsolescent. It would not do to enquire too closely into the purpose of my trip. 'Is your journey really necessary. nagged the railway hoardings during the war. No, not enough to convince the auditors, who will slash my expenses claim on seeing the negligible returns. Nor to satisfy Myrtle, who will raise a quizzical eyebrow and register a connubial debt. There is no pot of gold at the end of my trail nor, truth be told, enough profit to interest a Sunday boot-saler- which is not, of course, what I tell the accountants ( must keep in touch with consumer trends. or Myrtle ( meeting a familiar face can make all the difference when money's tight. What matters is that I know why I am going, and I don't have to make excuses to myself. Escape, or the illusion of it, is what keeps me alive and my business more or less solvent. Survival instinct propels me through the Euston crowds towards a reserved first-class seat on the nine-oh-three Intercity Express, my chest pounding with unaccustomed effort and an absurd anticipation of adventure. Absurd, because previous expeditions have attested beyond reasonable doubt that any prospect of adventure will get scotched at source by my innate reserve and speckless propriety- attributes that are bound to be mentioned in my none-too-distant obsequies, alongside the Dear Departed's musical expertise, mordant wit and discreet philanthropy. Adventure is, in any case, antithetical to my nature and inadvisable in my state of health. Furred arteries and a fear of bypass surgery have imposed severe restraints. I am limited to six lengths of the health-club pool and half a mile on the electronic treadmill; excitement is strenuously avoided; conjugality is conducted rarely and with the circumspection of porcupines. 'Take care of yourself. are Myrtle's parting words and, for her sake, I do try. In the absence of marital ardour, it's the least I can do. Yet, even a rackety, unbypassed old heart can be stirred by departure fantasy. As I board the train, my pulse picks up ten points in fake anticipation. I look ahead breathlessly, with a reassuring sense of déjà vu. It's like watching televised football highlights on a Saturday night when you've already heard the classified results on the radio. The programme may reveal some fine points of form and skill, but any tension has been ruled out by an incontrovertible foreknowledge of the outcome. Watching stale soccer from the snug of a prized deco armchair is the limit of my permitted thrills- a sad comedown for one who was groomed to make things happen. Sad to have slipped from motivator to spectator, from the wings of great stages to a piece of high-winged furniture. Still, there are compensations. By staying out of the thick of things, I have acquired an aura of what, in small-business circles, passes for timeless wisdom. Lifelong prudence has reaped its rewards. My town house has a heated indoor pool, I holiday winter and summer in wickedly overpriced Swiss resorts and my pension arrangements are structured to keep me in comfort for three lifetimes. 'Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people. said the prophet Isaiah- so we made it the tribal aspiration. What greater calm can a man find on earth than the quiet rustling of gilt-edged assets? At Rotary and Bnai Brith you cannot tell me apart from the rest of the Lodge, and that is how I like it; none of the other brothers has, to my certain knowledge, been invaded by genius and ruined by its defection. Forget I mentioned that: not many people are meant to know about it. 'Mustn't grumble. my father used to say, when asked how he was; and so do I. Normality is my nirvana. Only within, deep within, at the clotted edge of irreparable loss, do I feel the need for an unnecessary journey that will allow me to avoid devastating self-contemplation and the acceleration of inherited arteriosclerosis. I wouldn't be surprised if the railways were mostly run for people like me, half-wrecked psyches in perpetual flight from the missing part. I can just see a Development Director springing his brainwave initiative at a board meeting. 'Why don't we run extra Monday-morning services to the boondocks. he proposes brightly. 'There must be thousands of useless deadweights, dog-ends and waiting-for-godders who are just dying to get away. Settling in my window seat I pop two pills, a brand-name sedative and a homoeopathic palliative, shutting my eyes for ten minutes of yogic meditation. My Harley Street consultant (the cardiologist, not the naturopath) advises daily exercise and the avoidance of agitation. Being of a responsible disposition, I eat warily and carry a kidney-donor card. If I see a pretty girl or a police chase, I look away. In Michelin-starred restaurants, I order steamed fish. I have many friends but no recent lovers, vague interests but no driving passions. Myrtle, my partner in life, has a life largely of her own. A large-boned lady of healthy appetites, she lunches sparingly in good causes and plays bridge for her metropolitan borough. She took it up in her thirties, after having children, discerning in the pastime an outlet for her formidable memory and jugular instincts. Myrtle can remember the seating plan at every chicken-schnitzel wedding we have attended, the Order of Service at Her Majesty's Coronation, the universal symbols of the periodic table and the entire line-up of the Hungarian football team that inflicted England's first home defeat, 3-6, in the aforementioned Coronation Year, which was also the year of our marriage. Many's the time I have urged her to apply her remarkable mental powers to a worthier object than a pack of cards. But Myrtle's tolerance for ladies who lunch on behalf of the starving and homeless is limited. Our two sons have grown up and apart from us, triumphs of private schooling and canny marriages. One is a Kensington obstetrician with a trophy wife, the other a libel lawyer with a traditional spouse. Over dinner, I prefer the barrister's scurrilous gossip to the manicured sanctimony of a society abortionist. But I feel no satisfying patrimony when, on Friday nights, we play a charade of happy families around a table groaning with murderously poly-saturated fats. Monastically picking at my wife's heedlessly prepared dietary dynamite, I retire dyspeptically to bed with a glass of camomile tea and the Spectator, a lifelong habit, while coffee is taken in the lounge. My apologies are accepted with a wince of scepticism. Some in the family, I suspect, ascribe my medical condition to chronic hypochondria. A decent Omm-trance is pretty much unattainable on a train that starts and lurches through a thicket of signals, then spurts past outer suburbs like a runaway horse. Once the speed settles to a steady rocking, incomprehensible announcements splutter forth about the whereabouts of the refreshment car and would the chief steward please make his way to first class, thank you. Giving up the quest for inner peace and undistracted by the silvered February landscape, my attention turns to business, which barely needs it. The company I keep going is a spectre of the firm that my father founded in 1919 'to advance the appreciation of music among men and women of modest means. In its heyday, Simmonds was a household name, to be found in the nation's living rooms among the Wedgwood teacups, Hornby toys and grafted aspidistras in Robertson's jampots. Simmonds (Symphonic Scores and Concerts) Ltd manufactured piano reductions of orchestral masterpieces, issued in noble purple covers for the uniform price of sixpence. We also produced popular lives of the great composers, albumised folk-songs and approachable novelties by uncelebrated living composers. But the heart of Simmonds was the concert division, which organised orchestral nights for all the family, grannies to toddlers, at group discounts that worked out at less than the price of a cinema seat. Simmonds' suite of offices, nuzzling the old Queen's Hall at the top of Regent Street, buzzed seven days a week with unprofitable ideas, artistic aspirations and fatally entrapped wasps. No window was ever opened, for fear of diluting the fug of inspiration. Elbow-patched pianists in pursuit of unpaid fees jostled students and factory workers waiting for last-minute penny tickets. Trilby-hatted newspapermen interviewed stateless conductors in secluded corners- on one occasion, apparently, in the left hand stall of the ladies' washroom where the cistern drip-dripped so relentlessly that an idle wit attributed the metronomic tempi of that night's Tchaikovsky Fifth to the inadequacies of Simmonds' plumbing. My father, hunched behind a pyramid of unread contracts and uncorrected page-proofs, presided at all hours over his musical emporium, seldom locking up before midnight. 'I can't leave the place empty. he would say. 'Who knows when the next Kreisler might walk in. Half a century before open-plan offices, he took his door off its hinges, the better to observe all comings and goings. No artist ever entered unnoticed. As mail piled up and secretaries resigned in tears, my father juggled three telephone receivers simultaneously, virtuosically and without ever raising his voice. Mortimer (Mordecai) Simmonds had the manners of a gentleman and the abstraction of a scholar- though he was neither, having been sent to work 'in the print' at thirteen years old to support a widowed mother and four sisters in Bethnal Green. In the inky-stink din of a newspaper press, he befriended the lower echelons of journalism and ascended the proof-readers' ladder to join the sub-editors' desk of a literary supplement, itself a passport to Hampstead salons. There he met in mid-war and was persuaded to marry my mother, the dowried and somewhat dowdy eldest daughter of an Anglo-Sephardic dynasty, the Medolas, who offered to set him up in the business of his choice. Bookishness beckoned, the more so after two years on the Somme, but he failed to find the kind of books that would give him aesthetic satisfaction and would also make money. His business career was going nowhere when a friend gave him a spare ticket to the Queen's Hall on 4 May 1921, a date he would commemorate every year of his life. The soloist was Fritz Kreisler, back for the first time in eight years. Hearing him play an innocuous concerto by Viotti moved my father more than all the words he had ever read. Kreisler, with his bushy moustache and flashing eyes, ran off dazzling cadenzas as if they were child's play while holding listeners, one by one, in the grip of a limpid glare. 'I was seduced. my father would recall. 'It was as if he played only for me. From the moment his eye caught mine, I knew that my life was destined for music. Unable to read a score or play a scale, my father hired a tutor to instruct him in the difference between crotchets and quavers and the significance of pitch relations in concert programming. He frequented student recitals at the Trinity College of Music, behind Selfridge's department store, sniffing talent by instinct. One violinist he picked off the pavement, busking in Oxford Street. With a handful of hopefuls, he put on chamber recitals at the Aeolian Hall, a churchy room on Regent Street; and with the newly formed Birmingham Orchestra, bussed in for the night, he staged the first of his family entertainments at the marbled Royal Albert Hall, on the southern edge of Hyde Park. No critic was ever invited to his concerts, but the halls were full and admission was universally affordable. An outraged music industry condemned Simmonds for 'lowering the tone. My father laughed, and halved his top-price tickets. He refused to join collegial committees to discuss unit costs, credit lines and entry controls on foreign performers. He could not countenance anything that imposed restraint on an interpreter of music, a bringer of light and joy. He revered artists, almost without reservation. No Balkan pianist with three Zs in his name would ever come under pressure from Mortimer Simmonds to adopt a new identity for English convenience. No fat singer was ever required to slim. He gave second chances to panic-frozen beginners and blamed his own shortcomings when a concert flopped. He had no time for snob-appeal or seasonal brochures, for copyright niceties and entertainment tax- least of all, let it be noted, for his wife and son, whom he only ever saw in daylight over Sunday lunch, and not with undivided attention or unfailing punctuality. So when the phone rang one winter Sunday with the roast beef charred in the oven and my mother muttering over her petit-point, I failed to react in any way, hysterical or practical, to news of his death at the desk. My father belonged to Simmonds (Symphonic Scores and Concerts) Ltd, not to me; he died at his post, as it were, amid a mound of unopened mail. He was sixty-one, my present age. At the funeral, the rabbi spoke of his love of art, his humility and self-deprecating wit. He left me wishing I had seen more of him. Hauled out of Cambridge, where I was sitting my history finals, I took charge of the firm and swiftly secured its future. On to my father's hyperactive disorder, I imposed financial rigour. The rabble of loss-making unheard-of composers, most of them Hitler or Stalin refugees, was parcelled off to a modern-music publisher in Vienna, who kept three and unsentimentally sacked the rest. The family concerts were wound up and the soloists redirected to rival agencies. Two became famous; the rest vanished into marriage, music-teaching or orchestral drudgery. I was sorry to lose the artists, for their eagerness was infectious and their egotism endlessly amusing. Some I had grown up with, others were so daunted by the challenge of tying their shoelaces that I did not like to think what would become of them without our unstinted protection- but what else, in the circumstances, could I have done? There was a pressing personal reason for me to terminate our involvement with talent, a reason I try very hard, on medical and legal advice, not to dwell upon or commit to print. I got a good price for the offices from a Dutch merchant bank, retaining a corner space for myself, a spinster secretary called Erna Winter and an occasional junior. The revenue from these rapid disposals provided for Mother, who fell silent after Father's death and required periodic care in a private psychiatric hospital. During a remission she helped arrange my introduction to Myrtle, the bony daughter of Hispanic cousins, and morosely graced our solemn nuptials before overdosing on anti-depressants- whether deliberately or accidentally I neither knew nor deeply cared.
Le chant des noms cinema. Le chant des noms critique. I thought it said Morgan Freeman, so i kept expecting him to appear. Le chant des noms imdb. Le chant des nombres. Le chant des nains le hobbit. 
Le chant des noms et prénoms. Release date: TBD Studio: N/A Director: François Girard MPAA Rating: N/A Screenwriter: Starring: Tim Roth, Clive Owen, Catherine McCormack, Jonah Hauer-King, Gerran Howell Genre: Drama Plot Summary: The film is based on the award-winning novel of the same name by Norman Lebrecht. In this ravishing novel of music and suspense, Norman Lebrecht unravels the strands of love, envy and exploitation that knot geniuses to their admirers. In doing so he also evokes the fragile bubble of Jewish life in prewar London; the fearful carnival of the Blitz, and the gray new world that emerged from its ashes. Bristling with ideas, lambent with feeling, The Song of Names" is a masterful work of the imagination.
0:04 Who's that? Inconceivable. I just saw the movie yesterday in the cinema, and I couldn't belive the end. I really enjoyed it I would definitely recommend it. Movies Review Review Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Luke Doyle, left, and Misha Handley in “The Song of Names. ” (Sabrina Lantos/Sony Pictures Classics) Rating: 1. 5 stars) “The Song of Names” opens with a disappearance. Or perhaps “no-show” is a better term, since the 1951 vanishing act that sets the stage for this mostly London-set mystery — which jumps backward to World War II and then forward to 1986 — is by a character we havent yet met, and wont, except in flashbacks, until very late in the film. When he finally does show up, in the guise of Clive Owen with a bad fake beard and a doleful expression, its a deflating, off-key letdown that spoils the serviceable setup that came before. The character in question is Dovidl Rapoport, who in 1951 is a 20-something, Polish-born violin prodigy (Jonah Hauer-King) about to deliver his debut performance on the international stage in front of a London audience. That doesnt happen, for reasons that are withheld — with a fair degree of suspense — for quite a while. Much of the film leapfrogs that inciting incident to A) fill in the backstory of how Dovi, as hes called, arrived at that fateful moment, and B) unravel the complex legacy of his strange and sudden retirement. Based on a 2001 book by music critic and cultural commentator Norman Lebrecht, who won the Whitbread Award for this debut novel of Jewish identity and faith, the story does an admirable job of telling two stories. The first charts Dovidls friendship with an English boy of the same age named Martin (Misha Handley) whose family takes in Dovi (Luke Doyle) after his Jewish parents bring him to London — in search of both musical training and an escape from the growing threat of the Nazis back in Warsaw. The second thread concerns the search by the now-grown Martin (Tim Roth) for his childhood friend, after certain clues materialize, 35 years after the non-concert, suggesting that Dovi may not have evaporated into thin air. Tim Roth plays a man searching for his childhood friend, a violin prodigy who mysteriously disappeared in 1951, in “The Song of Names. ” (Sabrina Lantos/Sony Pictures Classics) Its only when these two narratives — the first a compelling coming-of-age chronicle, and the second a more prosaic whodunit — converge that they squeeze the life out of the story in the middle. The better part of “Song” concerns Dovi and Martin from the age of 9 to their early 20s, when the infamous concert looms. As they endure the Blitz as children — the excitement of the bomb shelter, the otherworldly destruction thats almost a playground to them — the fate of Dovis family back home makes the stakes of war horrifyingly clear. This shakes Dovis faith, which he likens to a coat: one he can don — or remove — as he chooses. But the question of whether identity — ethnic, religious, artistic — is something that can be so lightly worn and so easily discarded is not well articulated in this film by François Girard. With his résumé (“The Red Violin” and other music documentaries) its no surprise that the scenes involving music are the most powerful. The first shows Dovi and another young violinist communicating wordlessly, with their instruments, as they wait out the bombs. And the second, which explains the films title, shows a rabbi singing a list of names of Jews killed in the Holocaust, memorized as a mournful “song. ” Despite these moments of beauty, “The Song of Names” just doesnt work as a whole. What may have been effective on the page — the novels rumination on the power and failure of art in the face of the Holocaust — gets drowned out by the melody of a conventionally plotted yet ultimately un-thrilling thriller. In the end this “Song” — whose payoff may leave you thinking, “Are you kidding me? ” — doesnt so much crescendo as collapse in on itself, an orchestral work that peters out in a trickle of silly, sour notes. Michael O'Sullivan Michael O'Sullivan has covered the arts for The Washington Post since 1993, contributing reviews and features on film, fine art, theater and other forms of entertainment to Style and Weekend. Follow.
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WOW. I have to watch it. This is a wonderful and haunting film. It tells the story of two boys who grow up together. They are brothers through circumstances: the violinist child prodigy from the Warsaw Jewish community and the London lad who eventually befriends him when they are brought together. The story revolves around the sudden disappearance, on the day of his virtuoso concert, of the prodigy. Only near the end of the film do we discover why.
The film brilliantly deals with multiple layers and flashbacks, with perfect pacing and quite outstanding acting. The musical score is phenomenal.
This is a film about tragedy and loss, about how trauma lives on. It perfectly weaves the themes of ethnicity and religion.
It's a superb, haunting, film which I have not done justice here. In part that's because I don't want to do a review with spoilers. You have to go and see this film and allow your soul to be transported by the wonderful cinematography, script and musical score.
They don't make films as beautiful and brilliant as this very often. Go see it.
“The Song of Names” is the kind of mediocre Holocaust drama that used to be taken more seriously in the 1990s, partly thanks to the Weinstein brothers and Miramax. Director Francois Girard (“The Red Violin”) and screenwriter Jeffrey Caines adaptation of Norman Lebrechts novel is full of empty gestures and banal observations about remembrance and family, most of which flop because of wooden performances and trite dialogue. Girards direction, as well as some star charisma from co-leads Tim Roth and Clive Owen, both give the movie enough emotional resonance to keep afloat its bland narrative — about the 35-year-long search for a missing Jewish violinist prodigy — but theres no urgency or mystery to the movie, nor any compelling reason to care about its characters beyond a general hope that theyll ultimately discover something true and/or moving about Judaism, music, and genocide. They do not, though Howard Shores score is typically compelling in a swooning, insistent sort of way. Also Read: Clive Owen, Tim Roth's 'The Song of Names' Acquired by Sony Pictures Classics Not much else about “The Song of Names” feels authentic or believable. Primarily set in London from 1951-1986, Caines adaptation flashes back and forward to three key moments in the lives of cocky Polish violinist Dovidl (Owen) and his equally stubborn adopted brother Martin (Roth. Martin travels around the world, specifically to Warsaw and Brooklyn, searching for Dovidl, who disappeared without a trace before a highly publicized concert, despite the nagging objections of his poorly-developed wife Helen (Catherine McCormack. During his travels (including a short visit to Treblinka) Martin spends most of his time remembering his time with Dovidl between the ages of nine to 13 — Martins father Gilbert (Stuart Townsend) took in Dovidl during the war — and then again at ages 17-23; as children, Martin and Dovidl are played by Misha Handley and Luke Doyle, and as young adults by, respectively, Gerran Howell and Jonah Hauer-King. In a few scenes, Martin realizes that he, a gentile, has no clue about the depths of the trauma felt by Dovidl, a Jewish refugee, after the latters separation from his Warsaw-based family. Martin and Dovidls attempts at understanding each other are often boiled down to clichés and generalities about life during wartime. So Martin initially sulks and complains at the thought of sharing a room with a cocky foreigner, someone whose talent has earned him the attention and respect of Martins father. But then the two kids bond over cards, chess, girls, and musical duets whenever Dovidl isnt making arrogant and heavily accented declarations of self-love. Also Read: Clive Owen to Play Bill Clinton on FX's 'Impeachment: American Crime Story' Screenwriter Caine deliberately withholds a lot of basic information about novelist Lebrechts characters between flashbacks, which makes the plot of “The Song of Names” often seem like a well-polished nesting doll. The war, religion, and musical performances that define Dovidl are, in that sense, mostly presented as background noise that comes to the storys foreground only whenever Girard and Caine want to dramatically increase their dramas emotional stakes. Which wouldnt be so annoying if the actors were better at conveying emotions that were more complex than petulance or callow self-interest. Much of Caines dialogue sticks in the younger actors throats, but even small emotional moments, like when Martin walks in on Dovidl as he furtively cries over a photo of his family, look ridiculous because of the Welsh-born Doyles unbelievable Polish accent. Though to be fair, even Owen, who believably shoulders a superhuman load of grief in later scenes, struggles with a Polish accent, which is most apparent whenever he grinds out Misha Handley words with a “th” in them, like “fadder” or “brudder. ” And even if you can overlook a few bad accents, Caine and the ensemble cast generally fail to convey great sadness in any dialogue-intensive scene that concerns faith or music. Girard does what he can during a tense scene set in a London air-raid bunker, where young Dovidl and a rival violinist perform a “Dueling Banjos”-style duet that Girard films like a relay race. Then again, Doyle is a trained violinist, and his co-stars are not, so their frantic pantomiming is often distracting, though the music their characters produce (performed off-screen by Ray Chen) is rather good. Also Read: Clive Owen Joins Julianne Moore in Stephen King and JJ Abrams' Lisey's Story' at Apple Not as good: any big scene that revolves around Dovidls survivors guilt or his spirituality, like when he makes a big show of ripping up his yarmulke and tallit. The stunned look on Howells face as Hauer-King storms out of a London temple is unintentionally campy, as is the pseudo-revelatory scene where Martin and Dovidl, now middle-aged, reunite. Seeing Clive Owen decked out in a fedora, payot-style sideburns, and a face-devouring push-broom beard is shocking, but not in the way that the filmmakers intended. Watching Roths stunned face as he, in character, tries to process his emotions also reminds us of the insurmountable gap between emotional truths and their representation in even the most well-intended Holocaust drama. Martin and Dovidls reunion is one of several emotional make-or-break mini-climaxes in Caine and Lebrechts scenario, none of which are strong enough on their own, nor significantly enhanced by a decent plot twist. Theres ultimately too much strained seriousness in “The Song of Names”‘ dramatically flimsy and symbolically heavy episodic narrative, making Girard and Caines already dated feel-good historical drama seem especially tacky. 30 Classic World War II Movies, From 'Battleground' to 'Dunkirk' Photos) Here are a few films that best shine light on the heroics of those who died while serving in the armed forces during WWII.
Le chant des oiseaux. This movie is beautiful. Like I want to standing ovation to the actors. In this highly entertaining and accomplished first novel by a well-known English journalist and music critic, two men who became friends as children in London during WWII are reunited after 40 years. In 1939, nine-year-old Martin Simmonds meets Dovidl Rapoport, a violin prodigy the same age. Martin's father is a music impresario, and when Dovidl is sent by his Polish parents to study in England, he offers the boy lodging in his own home. Dovidl and Martin quickly become best friends. Dovidl's parents perish in the Holocaust; then, in 1951, Dovidl—his name changed to the more palatable Eli—is about to embark on a career as a concert virtuoso when he disappears on the day of his debut. Martin becomes obsessed with his friend's disappearance, and after decades of searching finally finds him in a dreary town in the north of England. Lebrecht's deep knowledge of music, his insights and his verbal inventiveness enliven the book (describing two awkward professors, he says they "stand out like frayed cuffs on a funeral suit. However, the novel drags in the middle with the backstory of the two boys living through the blitz; this is material that has been presented elsewhere and in greater depth. Also, there's no real mystery in unraveling either the location or identity of Rapoport. Simmonds's supposedly epic quest ( I am consumed by thoughts of finding him" is over in less than two days, and it's a letdown for the reader not to be able to sift through tantalizing clues. These shortcomings aside, this is a confidently written and engaging first novel by a talented writer. (Feb. ) Reviewed on: 11/24/2003 Release date: 02/01/2004 Genre: Fiction Compact Disc - 585 pages - 978-1-61573-558-7 Book - 1 pages - 978-1-61573-559-4 Prebound-Sewn - 978-1-4177-2509-0 Open Ebook - 181 pages - 978-0-307-42938-4 Hardcover - 311 pages - 978-0-7553-0094-5 Show other formats FORMATS.
A Sony Pictures Classics Release Synopsis Tim Roth and Clive Owen star in François Girard's (The Red Violin) sweeping historical drama, about a man searching for his childhood best friend – a violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust – who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance. About Testimonial About The Production TESTIMONIAL "Can a film be both heartbreaking and heart-healing at the same time? The Song of Names is a triumphant combination of history, artistry, and deep pathos. Some few stories help us comprehend the enormity of the losses, the astonishing resilience and the creative passion that marked a peoples darkest time. Song of Names is such a story, tracing a haunting melody that carries us far beyond words to a soul stirring climax. In an age of forgetfulness and coarse cruelty, when the slogans of hate reappear throughout the globe, The Song of Names is a gripping and vital contribution: a reminder of all that was lost, all that remained, and all that remains to be done. A film of broken friendship that devastates then uplifts, and finally, gives us back our faith. " – Rabbi David Wolpe is the Max Webb Senior Rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles. Named one of the 500 Most Influential People in Los Angeles in 2016 and again in 2017, Most Influential Rabbi in America by Newsweek and one of the 50 Most Influential Jews in the World by The Jerusalem Post, David Wolpe is the Max Webb Senior Rabbi of Sinai Temple. Rabbi Wolpe previously taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, Hunter College, and UCLA. A columnist for, he has been published and profiled in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Posts On Faith website, The Huffington Post, and the New York Jewish Week. He has been featured on The Today Show, Face the Nation, ABC This Morning, and CBS This Morning. In addition, Rabbi Wolpe has appeared prominently in series on PBS, A&E, History Channel, and Discovery Channel. Rabbi Wolpe is the author of eight books, including the national bestseller Making Loss Matter: Creating Meaning in Difficult Times. His new book is titled David, the Divided Heart. It was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Awards, and has been optioned for a movie by Warner Bros. ABOUT THE PRODUCTION As the first Gulf War was ending in 1991, Norman Lebrecht, a British commentator on classical music, was about to fly from Liverpool to Los Angeles. “There was a war on another continent, and it gave me an overwhelming sense of fragility, ” he says. “I had an idea about lives being unsettled by larger historic events. And the particular idea I had was: What if a man is so close to another person that they have an almost symbiotic connection—and that person suddenly disappears? How do you continue your life with only half a functioning self? You can lose a part of yourself and spend your whole life looking for it. ” As he continued to think about this idea over the coming years, it developed into his first novel, The Song of Names. The two halves of one soul that Lebrecht created in the novel were Martin, son of a modest music publisher, Gilbert Simmonds, and a Polish Jewish violin prodigy, Dovidl Rapoport, that Martins father invites to live in their home. “The day before Dovidl came along, if you asked Martin what he was, he would have said ‘ordinary, ” says Lebrecht. “When Dovidl arrives, Martins ordinariness ceases. When Dovidl disappears, Martin suffers two losses: the loss of his father, which he blames on Dovidl, and the loss of whatever lit Martin up from the inside and made him feel not ordinary. All this lives within Martin as slow-burning anger, the hope against hope that something will be resolved and that when its resolved, there will be rage. ” For Lebrecht, The Song of Names is about coping with loss. “Its something that happens to all of us in our lives, ” he says. “Do we then allow loss to paralyze us? Do we allow loss to leave us living half lives or half-hearted lives? Or are we able to, in some way or another, adjust to loss, and find a way to overcome that thing, however terrible it is? ” As THE SONG OF NAMES is set within the world of music and musicians, producer Robert Lantos saw François Girard (THE RED VIOLIN, THIRTY TWO SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD) as an ideal director. “This film lives or dies on the emotional impact of its music, ” says Lantos. “I thought it wouldnt be enough to have a terrific film director who just left the music to the composer. It had to be someone who is as familiar with the language of classical music as he is with the language of cinema, so he could work with a composer from a place of knowledge and conviction. And that led me to François. He directs opera, theatre, and Cirque du Soleil shows. I doubt there are many other filmmakers in the world who are as comfortable and familiar with classical music as he is. ” Despite his passion for music, Girard didnt want the films emphasis to be on music and the artistic temperament, as he felt it had been in Lebrechts novel: “Music is a very important vehicle in tackling this story, but to me this is not a film about music, ” he says. “This is an intimate story of two brothers, in which the undercurrents of the Holocaust and the memory of those that disappeared, gradually emerges. I made sure at all times that the music was always serving that, and never the reverse. ” Six actors play the principal roles of Martin and Dovidl, in different stages of their lives: as boys, adolescents, and middle-aged adults (Tim Roth and Clive Owen. “Were following characters from 9 to 55, which turns out to be my age and pretty much Clive and Tims age, ” says Girard. “The first period in the script goes from age 9 to about 21. You can't have the same actor play 9 and 21. You need a child and then a young man. And then, when you connect with the characters 35 years later, you need yet another pair of actors. ” Finding the right mix was a big challenge for Girard and casting directors Kirsty Kinnear, Susie Figgis, and Pam Dixon. “If you have Tim Roth and Clive Owen, you have to find the middle Tim and Clive and then the young ones, ” says Girard. “Whenever we moved a piece, the whole puzzle would shift. It took us more than a year to make sure we were making the right casting choices. ” The casting of these roles was pivotal, because the impact of Martins quest to find Dovidl rests on the depth of the relationship forged between the boys in their early years as evoked in the film. “I did everything possible to invest in that relationship with love, ” says Girard. “Love would be the key word. That way, the disappearance of Dovidl would be that much more charged. ” Luke Doyle, who plays Dovidl from age 9 to 13, is a violin prodigy himself, but unlike the other members of the cast, he was cast for his experience as a virtuoso violinist, and had no prior experience as an actor. “If a young person is already in touch with his emotions performing music, you can expect that he will be able to express his emotions with acting, ” says Girard. The director eventually found a musical process for communicating with Doyle, which sometimes meant literally conducting him: “Id give him a tempo, give him a flow, much like a conductor does with musicians, using my body and my arms to keep the rhythms of the text flowing through a scene. And Luke, being the brilliant young artist he is, reacted to that really well. ” Luke Doyle found young Dovidl to be a fascinating character to play. “There are not too many people out there who are like Dovidl, ” he says. “He never does anything boring, and that always makes him the center of attention. His arrogance and confidence is quite gravitational. At the same time he can sometimes be quite selfish, and doesnt really care about others. ” Doyle also perceives hidden vulnerability in Dovidl: “In the first few scenes, it feels as if Martin is the one who cant control his emotions, but as the story progresses and the two get to know each other, the tables turn and you begin to realize that its actually Dovidl who cant control his emotions, and for good reason. ” Misha Handley plays young Martin, who at first sees Dovidl as an unwanted invader in his house. “When Dovidl comes into his room and they are alone for the first time, Martin tries to establish dominance, but Dovidl just naturally takes up the space, ” says Handley. “He is clearly better than Martin at most things. The two despise each other after that first contact, especially on Martins side, but after certain events, the bond forms, and they become incredibly close, like blood brothers. ” Handley recognized that underneath Martins exterior, there are more complicated feelings brewing. “You take another look and you realize there is this darkness in the background. Martin loves Dovidl, but at the same time theres this hatred, theres this jealousy. ” When we meet Dovidl at 17, as Jonah Hauer-King begins to play him, he has lived in the UK for quite a few years and hes assimilating with his surroundings and his new family. “He has begun the journey, consciously or subconsciously, away from his Polish-Jewish identity, ” says Hauer-King. “ Its a time of great change because a lot of his identity was connected to his parents and to his family and the mystery surrounding what happened to them. ” By this point in the story a very specific dynamic has been formed in Dovidl and Martins relationship. “Dovidl is talented, flamboyant, precocious, self-centered, and ambitious, and Martin is the one who tries to keep him grounded and act as a rock. They are both playing roles within that brotherhood. Dovidl doesnt articulate it much, but I think he has a huge love and respect for Martin for putting up with him, as he can be quite difficult to be around. ” Gerran Howell, who takes over the role of Martin at 17, believes Martin is content to play his deferential role. Dovidl is the genius and Martin is the admirer, ” says Howell. “Martin sees himself as quite a boring person with not much of an outlook or freedom in his life. When Dovidl came along, he turned everything on its head. He was everything Martin wanted to be. They kind of fill each others things that theyre missing. But when Dovidl disappears, Martin is left to pick up the pieces and wonder what hes meant to do next. ” At the point we first encounter the adult Martin (Tim Roth) he is coasting through an essentially dull and passionless life. “Martin is living in a crumbling house with his wife, with not much money in the bank, ” says Roth. “His foster brother Dovidl, who was his best friend, vanished on him 35 years before. All of that comes tumbling back when he catches wind that Dovidl might still be around. That charges up his life again, and he goes looking for him. ” From that moment on, Martins quest to find Dovidl becomes the force driving the films narrative. “When Martin sees the first clue, his passion is awakened, ” says Girard. “It transforms him from a state of drifting around to being driven by a mission. ” In the novel, both Dovidl and Martins families are Jewish, but Roth suggested that Martin not be Jewish. “For people on the outside, its a hidden world, ” says Roth. “If Martin is Jewish, he would already know where to look, in a sense. So I think it gives me more to explore. ” Screenwriter Jeffrey Caine liked Roths idea. “It adds another strand to the film, ” says Caine. “It gives Martin another cause for resentment. Not only is this kid now his father's golden boy, they also have to live a kosher life. ” During the decades since the two men had last seen each other, Dovidl has changed drastically from the young man Martin once knew. “There is a huge gap in the story, ” says Clive Owen, who plays the adult version of Dovidl. “There is a world, a life thats happened that we dont see, that we never see because his life has changed so dramatically. Their coming together is hugely important because Martin has spent his entire life wondering why this guy just disappeared without a word when they were very close and had done so much together. Dovidl made a decision 35 years ago to create a new life and now he has to face up to the past. ” Catherine McCormack portrays Martins wife Helen. “Helen is very much in love with Martin, as he is with her, ” says McCormack. “But Martins obsession with understanding and finding out where his friend went has taken over his life. He really needs to find the answers and for Helen thats very difficult because she has a secret herself in relation to Dovidl. But, beyond that, its causing problems in their marriage because she feels like theres a third person, a presence that is not physically there, but is always a part of their everyday language. And shes tired of it. She feels shes in a marriage with three people. ” Martins quest for Dovidl begins when, while judging a competition, he recognizes a unique stylistic flourish used by a young violinist, Peter Stemp (Max Macmillan) that could only have been taught to the boy by Dovidl. While the novel could reveal in words what Martin was thinking, screenwriter Jeffrey Caine did not feel there was a way to convey this vital piece of information to a film audience. Instead, Caine invented a physical action: Stemp slowly applies rosin to his bow (something no concert violinist would do on stage) and delicately kisses the block of rosin. As we eventually learn, the cake of rosin had a profound meaning for Dovidl, as it was a parting gift from his father, the last time he saw him. While its unstated in the film, this reverent gesture is something Dovidl would have constantly witnessed growing up in an Orthodox home, where holy objects like the siddur (prayer book) mezuzah on doorpost, tallis (prayer shawl) are traditionally kissed as a symbol of loyalty to Judaism and God. This simple gesture with the rosin ties Dovidl simultaneously to his father, family, and Jewish identity. Years after Dovidls disappearance, young Peter Stemp takes Martin to meet Billy (Richard Bremmer) the street violinist from whom he picked up Dovidls gesture. Billy tells Martin that Dovidl told him in 1951 that he was going home to “play for the ashes. ” These words mean nothing to Billy, but are enough to convince Martin that Dovidl left London for Poland. Martin flies to Warsaw and seeks out Weschler, a once-dashing virtuoso violinist whom Martin and Dovidl had known when they were young. Martin finds the now decrepit Weschler, listless and unresponsive, in a lunatic asylum. While Martin is unable to get Weschler to remember him, a nurse informs Martin that Weschler is visited once a year by a woman. Martin tracks down the woman, Anna Wozniak (Magdalena Cielecka) who was Dovidls lover during his brief stay in Poland. Anna tells Martin that Dovidl twice played a special song on his violin, which he never allowed her to hear: once for Weschler in the asylum, and another time on the field where the Treblinka Death Camp once stood. Dovidl referred to his Treblinka performance as “playing for the ashes. ” Anna takes Martin to Treblinka, where there is now a memorial garden, filled with hundreds of stone slabs. Afterwards, Anna tells Martin where Dovidl went after he left Poland. THE SONG OF NAMES was the first feature film to receive permission to shoot on the Treblinka memorial. Eight hundred thousand or more people were killed on that site in a period of nine months. “Ive spent my adult life avoiding going to extermination camps, ” says Lantos, the son of Holocaust survivors. “I dont think most people would want to go to hell on earth. I didnt want to and I never would have if I werent making this film, but the alternative would have been to build it somewhere in a field, and I really didnt want to do that. I thought it was essential that we film there. ” At the center of Treblinka is a large irregular shaped rock, engraved with two words, in several languages: “Never Again. ” Says Lantos: “For me, those two words encapsulate the most important reason a film like this needs to be made. ” Everyone involved in the film shared this conviction. “One problem in society now is the general amnesia, ” says Girard. “Fifty percent of people under thirty dont even know what the word Holocaust means, and those who do know what the word means, you can be certain wouldnt be able to explain much. So its definitely a mission for this film to keep that memory alive, to keep those events meaningful and resonant. ” Screenwriter Caine, whose parents died in the Holocaust, says: “I deplore genocide wherever it occurs and to whomever it occurs. Im with the Armenians, the Tutsis, the people Pol Pot murdered in Cambodia, and whoever might be genetically or racially cleansed tomorrow. Whatever words people use to describe it, this is a process thats ongoing in the human mind, and this film isnt going to eradicate it. But the more aware we all are of that thing in human beings that makes them act like this, the better. We have to know about it in order to recognize what the dangers are for the human race. ” Before shooting, François Girard visited the Treblinka Memorial, along with actress Magdalena Cielecka and production designer François Seguin. “It was a very emotional experience, ” says Girard. “We entered and for two hours we didnt say a single word. There was nothing to say. ” The experience affected Girard deeply and caused him to make an important change in the scene. “In the script the characters were talking as they walked there, and this no longer seemed right. I went back and worked with Jeffrey Caine so that Martin and Anna would remain silent. ” The core of the films story is the titular “Song of Names, ” a recitation of the names of all who perished at Treblinka, set to music. It is through this song, chanted in a London synagogue by an Orthodox Rebbe (Daniel Mutlu) that Dovidl finally hears what befell his family at Treblinka. Its significant that the names are not simply recited, but are sung like a prayer. “Music is a language, and it is probably the most powerful of all languages because it goes across borders with no need for translations, ” says Girard. “It talks to the heart with no intermediaries, and it says things that words cant say, because its a place where we meet and that no other medium can provide. ” Soon after learning the fate of his family through “The Song of Names, ” Dovidl, who had once renounced his religion, goes to the opposite extreme and dedicates his life to Orthodox Judaism. He also pledges to write a violin version of “The Song of Names. ” The practice of remembrance through sung prayers is deeply rooted in Jewish tradition back to ancient times. The specific idea of “The Song of Names” on which the film is based was conceived by author Norman Lebrecht. “The Song of Names” and the violin theme heard in the movie is an original work by composer Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) based on traditional modes. Drawing on his own experience from growing up in the synagogue, Shore spent two years studying the cantorial tradition using early recorded audio but particularly recordings from the 1950s, when the song is first heard in the film. Shore received particular guidance in recapturing the Jewish liturgical tradition by famed conductor/educator Judith Clurman and Bruce Ruben, who is Cantor of the Brooklyn Heights Synagogue. Girard maintains that Shores contribution went beyond music. “Howard was a contributor to the script, because there are a lot of ideas that I developed and discussed with him, which were ultimately implemented into the script, ” says Girard. “For instance, the final concert, where you have a converging of Dovidls three performances of ‘The Song of Names—with Weschler, at Treblinka, and on stage—as well as first hearing the Rebbe sing it, that was something I brought to the script and Howard embraced. ” By the time that Dovidl plays “The Song of Names” at the end, he has long shed the idea of performing for fame and fortune. “By that moment, its not so much about Dovidl demonstrating virtuosity, its more of a spiritual evocation, ” says Girard. “His music has become a vehicle of something bigger. Theres no fame, no money, no individuality, no ego involved. Its all about honoring the memory of those who had disappeared. ” All the same, Dovidls great gifts have not left him. “‘The Song of Names is a virtuoso piece, ” says Shore, “to be played by a master musician. ” All the violin parts in the performance of “The Song of Names, ” as well as young Dovidls virtuoso performances of such pieces as Henryk Wieniawskis “Variations on an Original Theme, Opus 15” (audition) and Niccolò Paganinis Caprice #9 and #24 (with Jozef in the bomb shelter) are performed by internationally acclaimed violinist Ray Chen. “Ray worked very closely with me, ” says Shore. “He delved into ‘The Song of Names with his heart and soul and created something that was really timeless. ” Daniel Mutlu, Senior Cantor at Manhattans Central Synagogue, sang the part of the Rebbe live on camera. “That scene could only be recorded live on set says Shore. Daniel had to perform it and feel the pain. ” Shores soundtrack for the film weaves melodic elements of “The Song of Names” from the films opening minutes until the songs reprise in the end credits. “I try to create a complete work when I write for a film, ” he says. Unlike Luke Doyle, Clive Owen and Jonah Hauer-King had no prior training with the violin, and had to go through extensive training with British violinist Oliver Nelson to make them appear convincingly like violin masters. “We put hours and hours and hours of work in, ” says Owen. “It was tough work because I was trying to do something that somebody would spend thirty years honing and getting as good as it should be. And I just had a couple of months. But François promised me that whatever happened he would make me look brilliant on the violin. So I trusted him and I put as much work in as I possibly could and then with great help from Ollie, he seemed to be happy. ” Hauer-King says that the particular training he received was project specific. “Im very good at playing one song, and nothing else, ” he says. “But it was a really great challenge and I enjoyed it. ” Principal photography for THE SONG OF NAMES took place over nine weeks in late 2018, starting with five days in London, followed by seven weeks of location and studio work in Budapest, Hungary, and a final week of location work in Montreal. Budapest can pass for many cities, but it has very distinctive Austro-Hungarian architecture that needed to be adapted by the Production Designer François Seguin (BROOKLYN) and his team to stand in for English locations. There were several occasions where quite substantial set builds were also required, notably the sand-bagged entrance to a World War II air raid shelter. The concert hall used for both the 1951 and 1986 scenes was the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, an Art Nouveau concert hall in Budapest located within Hungarys most prestigious music school. Although THE SONG OF NAMES is profoundly connected to the memory of those who perished during the Holocaust, there is actually very little direct portrayal of those events. “One reason I agreed to direct this film is that it deals with the Holocaust without looking at it straight in the eye, ” says Girard. “I dont think I could have done that. Watching THE SONG OF NAMES is like taking a walk on a volcano that is apparently quiet with its gardens and paths, but deep under theres red lava thats burning. Were looking at the Holocaust from the small end of the telescope, at characters who suffered the consequences of it, and through their eyes and through their lives, we evoke the tragedy. ” The story of THE SONG OF NAMES illustrates how the brutal forces of war and genocide can leave indelible marks on those who manage to survive those scourges. Still, while the story passes through unimaginable darkness, it doesnt end on a note of utter hopelessness. “There is a message in this story, that the things we lose, we dont always lose, ” says Lebrecht. “Things that we think are lost forever are deeply embedded inside us, and if we have the tenacity to go and look for them, we can start to understand loss as not total. We are able to build on what is left behind and move on. ” Cast Tim Roth Clive Owen Catherine McCormack Jonah Hauer-King Gerran Howell Luke Doyle Misha Handley Magdalena Cielecka Marina Hambro Tim Roth Martin TIM ROTH (Martin) made his studio feature debut in ROB ROY, opposite Liam Neeson and Jessica Lange, a performance that earned him a Golden Globe nomination and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama. Roth currently stars in the series “Tin Star, ” as Jim Worth, an ex-undercover UK cop turned police chief of a small town in the Canadian Rockies. Season three will premiere in 2020. He previously starred in the series “Lie To Me, ” as Dr. Cal Lightman, a researcher who pioneered the field of deception detection, skilled at reading the human face, body and voice to uncover the truth in criminal and private investigations. He gained worldwide attention for his roles in the Quentin Tarantino films RESERVOIR DOGS and PULP FICTION. He teamed with Tarantino a third time in THE HATEFUL EIGHT. Roth spent his youth aspiring to become a fine artist, and studied sculpture at Camberall Art College before he went on to study drama in London. Working steadily in theatre, he received great notices portraying Gregor Samsa in a production of an adaptation of Kafkas “The Metamorphosis. ” He made his TV debut with the lead role in the award-winning telefilm “Made in Britain, ” followed by Mike Leighs MEANTIME. Roth starred in over fifteen film and television projects including Stephen Frears THE HIT (Evening Standard Award for “Best Newcomer”) Peter Greenaways THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER; Tom Stoppards ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD; and Robert Altmans VINCENT & THEO, in which he portrayed Vincent Van Gogh. His other film credits include: Tim Burtons PLANET OF THE APES; THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY; Nora Ephrons LUCKY NUMBERS; Giuseppe Tornatores LEGEND OF 1900; Werner Herzogs INVINCIBLE; JUMPIN AT THE BONEYARD; BODIES, REST & MOTION; MURDER IN HEARTLAND; Nicolas Roegs HEART OF DARKNESS; FOUR ROOMS; James Grays LITTLE ODESSA; Angela Popes CAPTIVES; GRIDLOCKD; Woody Allens EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU; HOODLUM; DECEIVER; John Sayless SILVER CITY; EVEN MONEY; Wim Wenderss DONT COME KNOCKING; Walter Salless DARK WATER; Michael Hanekes FUNNY GAMES; Francis Ford Coppolas YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH; THE INCREDIBLE HULK; ARBITRAGE; BROKEN (British Independent Film Award for Best Actor) THE LIABILITY; GRACE OF MONACO; SELMA (as George Wallace) CHRONIC (Independent Spirit nomination for Best Male Lead) and 600 MILES. He can currently be seen in LUCE, opposite Naomi Watts and Octavia Spencer. Roth made his directorial debut in 1999 with the award-winning THE WAR ZONE, starring Ray Winstone, Colin Farrell, and Tilda Swinton, based on the novel by Alexander Stuart. The film premiered at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews and was also presented at Cannes, Berlin (C. I. C. A. E. Award) Toronto Film Festivals, prior to its theatrical release that year. The film received numerous nominations and prizes, including: Best New British Feature at the Edinburgh Film Festival; Best British film at the British Independent Film Awards; and the European Film Award for Best Discovery. Roths other TV credits include: the three-part miniseries “Klondike, ” from Executive Producer Ridley Scott; the three-part drama “10 Rillington Place, ” where he played notorious serial killer John Christie; and the International Emmy nominated TV movie “Reg. ” He made his return to the stage in 2004, for the first time since early in his career in London, in the Actors Studio Drama School Theaters production of Sam Shepards “The God of Hell. ” Roth was born in London, and currently resides in Los Angeles. Clive Owen Dovidl CLIVE OWEN (Dovidl) won a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of “Larry” in Mike Nichols CLOSER (2005) opposite Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Natalie Portman. Born in Keresley, Coventry, in the UK, Owen first came onto the scene in several British and American telefilms. In 1991, he starred in the hit UK television series “Chancer, ” followed by “Second Sight, ” which aired on PBSs “Mystery! ” Owen made his film debut in Beeban Kidrons VROOM in 1988, followed by Stephen Poliakoffs CLOSE MY EYES; BENT; GREENFINGERS; Mike Hodges CROUPIER; and Robert Altmans GOSFORD PARK. Owens other films include: BEYOND BORDERS; Mike Hodgess ILL SLEEP WHEN IM DEAD; KING ARTHUR; Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguezs SIN CITY (“The Big Fat Kill”) DERAILED; Spike Lees INSIDE MAN; Alfonso Cuarons CHILDREN OF MEN; SHOOT ‘EM UP; ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE (as Sir Walter Raleigh) DUPLICITY; THE INTERNATIONAL; THE INTRUDERS, THE BOYS ARE BACK; TRUST; THE KILLER ELITE; James Marshs SHADOW DANCER; BLOOD TIES; Fred Schepisis WORDS AND PICTURES; ANON; OPHELIA; and upcoming, THE INFORMER and GEMINI MAN, opposite Will Smith. He recently starred in Steven Soderberghs “The Knick, ” for Cinemax, which he also executive produced. His portrayal of Dr. Thatchery earned him a 2015 Golden Globe Best Actor nomination. In 2011, he made his American TV debut in HBOs Emmy nominated “Hemingway and Gellhorn, ” starring opposite Nicole Kidman and directed by Phil Kaufman. His performance earned him Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe nominations. Owen is also an acclaimed stage actor with roles includding his portrayal of “Romeo” at the Young Vic, starring in Sean Mathias staging of Noel Cowards “Design For Living, ” and playing the lead role in Patrick Marbers original production of “Closer” at the Royal National Theater in 1997. In the fall of 2001, he starred in London in Peter Nicholss “A Day in the Death of Joe Egg. ” In 2015, he made his Broadway debut in the revival of Harold Pinters “Old Times. ” He later returned to Broadway in the 2017 production of David Henry Hwangs “M. Butterfly. ” He is currently appearing at the Noel Coward Theatre in London in the starring role in Tennessee Williamss “The Night of the Iguana, ” his first time appearing in the West End in almost twenty years. Owen starred as The Driver in the series of BMW internet short features entitled “The Hire, ” each directed by John Frankenheimer, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai, Guy Ritchie, and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Catherine McCormack Helen CATHERINE McCORMACK (Helen) trained at the Oxford School of Drama before going on to a highly successful stage and screen career. McCormack gained international attention for her second film role, as Murran MacClannough, wife of Mel Gibsons William Wallace in the multi-Academy Award winning BRAVEHEART (1995. Her subsequent films include: NORTH STAR; THE LAND GIRLS; DANGEROUS BEAUTY; DANCING AT LUGHNASA; THIS YEARS LOVE; SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE; Kathryn Bigelows THE WEIGHT OF WATER; John Boormans THE TAILOR OF PANAMA; SPY GAME, opposite Robert Redford and Brad Pitt; 28 WEEKS LATER; THE FOLD; Woody Allens MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT; THE JOURNEY; and PROMISE AT DAWN. She will soon be seen in Adrian Shergolds horror thriller, CORDELIA, with Michael Gambon. Her television roles include: Lady Carmichael in “Sherlock”; Veronica, Countess of Lucan in “Lucan”; Theresa Leary in the US boxing drama, “Lights Out”; and “Temple, ” opposite Mark Strong. McCormacks stage roles include: Mary Carney in Jez Butterworths Tony-winning “The Ferryman, ” which was directed by Sam Mendes and transferred from the West End to Broadway; Mrs. Robinson in “The Graduate” (West Yorkshire Playhouse) “Dancing at Lughnasa” (Lyric Theatre) Goneril in “King Lear, ” opposite Frank Langellas Lear (BAM) Juana Inés de la Cruz in “The Heresy of Love” (Royal Shakespeare Company) “Top Girls” (Trafalgar Theatre) “A Lie of the Mind” (Donmar Warehouse) Nora in “A Dolls House” (Peter Halls production at Theatre Royal, Bath) and the National Theatre productions of “All My Sons, ” “Free, ” “Dinner, ” and “Honour. ” Jonah Hauer-King Dovidl, 17-23 JONAH HAUER-KING (Dovidl, 17-23) began his career at the Lyric Belfast, in Simon Stephens “Punk Rock. ” He then went to Cambridge University, but juggled acting roles on stage and screen while there. He made his West End debut playing Kenneth Branaghs son in “The Entertainer, ” a performance which was filmed in 2016. His first feature was a lead role in Danny Hustons THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH (2017, World Premiere, Edinburgh International Film Festival) followed by roles in ASHES IN THE SNOW, opposite Bel Powley; OLD BOYS; POSTCARDS FROM LONDON (also performed and wrote songs on the soundtrack) and A DOGS WAY HOME, with Ashley Judd and Edward James Olmos. Hauer-King starred in two BBC miniseries: “Howards End” with Hayley Atwell and Mathew Macfadyen, and “Little Women, ” with Emily Watson, Angela Lansbury, and Michael Gambon. This year, he will be seen in Blumhouses ONCE UPON A TIME IN STATEN ISLAND opposite Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale, and the BBCs major new World War II series, “World On Fire. ” Hauer-King was born and raised in London. He is a dual citizen of the UK and the United States. Gerran Howell Martin, 17-21 GERRAN HOWELL (Martin, 17-21) recently played Kid Sampson in the Hulu mini-series adaptation of Joseph Hellers “Catch-22, ” opposite George Clooney, Kyle Chandler and Hugh Laurie. He made his U. S. television debut in 2017 when he was cast in the lead role of Jack (a. k. a. The Tin Man) on the NBC fantasy series “Emerald City, ” based on the Oz book series by L. Frank Baum. He then played painter Karl-Heinz Wiegels, opposite Antonio Banderas (Pablo Picasso) in the series “Genius. ” His other film roles include John Boormans QUEEN & COUNTRY, opposite David Thewlis; and CRUSADE IN JEANS, starring Emily Watson. Upcoming for Howell is a role in Sam Mendess 1917, opposite Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, and Richard Madden. Howell is a Welsh actor who began his career at 15, playing the lead role of Vladimir Dracula on the BBC scripted series “Young Dracula. ” In 2007, “Young Dracula” won a Royal Television Society Award and the Welsh BAFTA for Best Childrens Program. The series was also nominated for several other awards during its five-season run, including the BAFTA for Best Childrens Drama in 2008 and a BAFTA Childrens Award in 2012. After the series ended, Howell studied at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Following graduation, he appeared in the British series “Some Girls, ” “Casualty, ” “Drifters, ” and in all three seasons of “The Sparticle Mystery. ” Howells stage roles include: “Bedwas Boy Mandela, ” “Shoot/Get/Treasure/Repeat, ” and “War and Peace. ” He resides in London, England. Luke Doyle Dovidl, 9-13 LUKE DOYLE (Dovidl, 9-13) is a 12-year-old violinist who makes his film acting debut in THE SONG OF NAMES. He is currently the youngest member of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales. Born in South Wales, Doyle began playing the violin at age 8, and two years later gained a government scholarship to attend the renowned Wells Cathedral School. He studies violin with Catherine Lord. Doyle has always enjoyed acting, and has taken lead roles in school productions since studying at Wells. When the casting department for THE SONG OF NAMES undertook a national search for a prodigious young violinist, Doyle was recommended by a parent at Wells Cathedral School, who was aware of his multiple talents as a performer. Outside music, Lukes has a keen interest in history (particularly World War II) and theology. Misha Handley MISHA HANDLEYs (Martin, 9-13) first film experience was in the 2012 movie WOMAN IN BLACK as the 4-year-old son of Daniel Radcliffe. In the same year he was cast as another 4-year-old in “Parades End, ” a BBC series set in Edwardian England and starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall as his parents. Tom Stoppard adapted the novel by Ford Maddox Ford and the large cast contained many of the UKs best known actors. In 2019, Handley played Alexander in a stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergmans classic film “Fanny and Alexander” at Londons Old Vic Theatre. Magdalena Cielecka Anna Polish actress MAGDALENA CIELECKA (Anna) received many prestigious Polish and international awards for her film debut, TEMPTATION, in 1995. Cieleckas subsequent films include: S@MOTNOSĆ W SIECI (“Loneliness on the Net”) ZAKOCHANI (“In Love”) EGOIŚCI (“Egoists”) THE LURE; UNITED STATES OF LOVE; A HEART OF LOVE; STARS; BREAKING THE LIMITS; DARK, ALMOST NIGHT; and THE DAY OF CHOCOLATE. In 2008, she attended the Berlin Film Festival and Academy Award ceremony for her role in Andrzej Wajdas KATYŃ. Cielecka was born in Myszków, Poland, and graduated from the Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in Cracow in 1995. As a student, she made her debut in Cracows Stary Teatr, where she continued to work during her years in Cracow. In 1999, she received the Zelwerowicz Award for Best Actress of the Season for three of her roles: the title role in “Ivona, Princess of Burgundia, ” Candy in “Unidentified Human Remains, ” and Judith in “Father Mark. ” She has performed in Warsaw theatres since 1998, most notably in Teatr Rozmaitości in plays directed by Grzegorz Jarzyna and Krzysztof Warlikowski. She received the Feliks Warszawski Award for her portrayal of Ariel in “Burza, ” an adaptation of Shakespeares “The Tempest. ” She has been part of the Nowy Teatr team since 2008 and also appears in the National Theatre in Warsaw, Imka, and Polonia Theatres. Cielecka has also acted in many television series, including “Without Secrets, ” “Hotel 52, ” “Time of Honor, ” “Prokurator, ” “The Pact, ” “Belfer, ” “Belle Epoque, ” “Chylka. Zaginiecie, ” and “Pisarze, Serial na krótko. ” Marina Hambro Young Helen MARINA HAMBRO (Young Helen) makes her feature film debut in THE SONG OF NAMES. Hambro studied photography, media studies and theatre studies at Hurtwood House, in Surry, England, a school famed for its performing arts and media curriculum. She was active in the Hurtwood Acting Company, and was awarded the schools highest scholarship, which made it possible for Hambro to pursue her acting training in New York City. In New York, Hambro appeared in a variety of off-Broadway plays including “Gruesome Playground Injuries” and “The Other Side. ” She also acted in dozens of short films, including “Round Two” and “Terminal. ” Since returning to London, Hambro played the lead role opposite Jane Cussons in the horror short, “When the Howls Find Us, ” which was accepted into the official selection of the Aesthetica Film Festival. Filmmakers François Girard Robert Lantos Lyse Lafontaine Nick Hirschkorn Jeffrey Caine Norman Lebrecht Howard Shore Francois Séguin David Franco Michel Arcand Anne Dixon François Girard Director FRANÇOIS GIRARD (Director) gained notoriety as much for his filmmaking as for his staging of operas and theater plays. In 1993, his feature film THIRTY TWO SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD would go on to garner international success including four top Genie Awards. Five years later he directed THE RED VIOLIN, featuring Samuel L. Jackson, which received an Academy Award for best original score and enshrined Girard as an important player on the international movie scene. The film also won eight Genie Awards and nine Jutra Awards. SILK, which he later directed, was adapted from Alessandro Bariccos best-selling book, and was released worldwide in 2007. The cast includes Michael Pitt, Keira Knightley, Alfred Molina, Miki Nakatani and Koji Yakusho. SILK received four Jutra Awards. His film BOYCHOIR, released in 2015, features Dustin Hoffman, Kathy Bates and Eddie Izzard among others. Most recently, HOCHELAGA, LAND OF SOULS, was presented at the Toronto Film Festival, and represented Canada in the race for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 90th Academy Awards. It was released in September 2017 and was greatly acclaimed by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Girards 1994 concert film “Peter Gabriels Secret World, ” became a best-selling film and earned him a Grammy Award. A few years later he directed one of the six episodes of the internationally acclaimed series “Yo-Yo Ma Inspired By Bach. ” In 1997, François Girard made his opera directorial debut with “Oedipus Rex/Symphony of Psalms” by Stravinsky and Cocteau, which received numerous awards and was named by The Guardian as “the best theatrical show of the year. ” His other opera works include “Lost Objects, ” for the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Wagners “Siegfried”; “The Flight of Lindbergh/Seven Deadly Sins” by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht; as well as Kaija Saariaho's “Émilie. ” Girards most recent opera work was “Parsifal, ” which earned him and the Metropolitan Opera Company a remarkable critical success. For the stage, Girard also directed Alessandro Barricos “Novecento”, Kafkas “Trial” and Yasushi Inoues “Hunting Gun, ” and most recently, a new production of Samuel Becketts “Waiting for Godot. ” Girard is a three-time winner of the much-coveted Herald Angel Award for Best Production at the Edinburgh Festival. In recent years, Cirque du Soleils commissioned Girard to write and direct “Zed, ” their first permanent show in Tokyo; and “Zarkana, ” which opened at Radio City Music Hall, played at the Kremlin Theatre and has become a resident show in Las Vegas. To date, François Girards accomplishments have earned him over one hundred international awards and public acclaim the world over. Robert Lantos Producer THE SONG OF NAMES is ROBERT LANTOSs (Producer) first collaboration with director François Girard. Lantos was Chairman and CEO of Canadas leading film and television company, Alliance Communications Corporation, from its inception until 1998, when he sold his controlling interest. He then formed his production company Serendipity Point Films, where he produces films he is personally passionate about. His first film, IN PRAISE OF OLDER WOMEN, opened the Toronto Film Festival in 1978 and his 1985 film JOSHUA THEN AND NOW, screened In Competition at Cannes and opened Toronto. Since then Lantos has produced over forty feature films, including BARNEYS VERSION, for which Paul Giamatti received a Golden Globe for Best Actor. Lantos has established longstanding creative relationships with some of the worlds preeminent directors, notably David Cronenberg, István Szabó, and Atom Egoyan. Cronenbergs EASTERN PROMISES earned Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA Nominations, opened the London International Film Festival and San Sebastian Film Festival and screened as a Gala at the Toronto Film Festival; CRASH, winner of a Special Jury Prize in Cannes and eXistenZ, winner of The Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Lantoss collaborations with István Szabó include: BEING JULIA, which earned Annette Bening an Oscar nomination, the Golden Globe Award and the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress; and SUNSHINE, which received three Golden Globe nominations, including Best Picture, three European Film Awards and the Canadian Screen Award for Best Picture. His notable collaborations with Atom Egoyan include THE SWEET HEREAFTER, which won the Cannes Grand Prix, was nominated for two Oscars and won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Picture; WHERE THE TRUTH LIES, which was screened in competition in Cannes; ARARAT, Official Selection in Cannes, Opening Night at Toronto, and won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Picture; Cannes Prize Winner EXOTICA; and REMEMBER, in competition, Venice Film Festival and Gala at the Toronto Film Festival. Lantoss other producing credits include Alonso Ruiz Palacioss MUSEO, winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival; JOHNNY MNEMONIC, an international box office hit starring Keanu Reeves; Bruce Beresfords BLACK ROBE. Opening Night Gala at the Toronto Film Festival, Canadian Screen Award for Best Picture; Denys Arcands STARDOM, Closing Night Cannes; Opening Night Gala at Toronto; Norman Jewisons THE STATEMENT, National Board of Review Winner; Jeremy Podeswas FUGITIVE PIECES, Rome Festival Best Actor Award, Opening Night Gala at Toronto; and Don McKellars THROUGH BLACK SPRUCE. Lantos is a member of the Order of Canada, and a recipient of the Governor Generals Performing Arts Award. He holds honorary Doctorates from McGill University and the University of Haifa. Lyse Lafontaine LYSE LAFONTAINE (Producer) is one of Canadas most highly regarded producers. A veteran of both film and television production, she has worked with some of the most respected names in the Canadian entertainment industry, including Jean-Claude Lauzon on the award winning film LÉOLO that she produced in 1992. The film played in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Golden Spike (Best Picture) at Valladolid. In addition to Canada, Lafontaine has coproduced movies along with other producers from France, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Switzerland and the United States, among other countries. A SUNDAY IN KIGALI (2006) a love story occurring during the Rwanda genocide, was directed by Robert Favreau and based on the novel by Gil Courtemanche. It was presented at more than 35 international festivals and won many prizes, including the Genie for Best Adaptation, the Jutra for Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Sound, Best Original Score, Best Costumes, Best Make-Up, the Best Actress award at the Marrakech International Film Festival, the Best North-American Film award at the Kuala Lumpur International Film Festival, among many others. MOMMY IS AT THE HAIRDRESSERS (2008) about a young girls coming of age in the 60s, was written by Isabelle Hébert and directed by Léa Pool. It was presented in many countries and won the Jutra Award for the film getting the most recognition outside Quebec. The film won Audience Awards at both the Soleure Film Festival in Switzerland and the Goeteborg International Film Festival in Sweden. In 2009, Lafontaine was co-producer with producer Robert Lantos and co-producer Domenico Procacci, of BARNEYS VERSION, an adaptation of the acclaimed Mordecai Richler novel, directed by Richard J. Lewis and starring Paul Giamatti, Dustin Hoffman, Rosamund Pike, Minnie Driver, and Scott Speedman. Lafontaine produced Xavier Dolans film LAURENCE ANYWAYS (2012) starring Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye and Monia Chokri. The film was chosen for “Un Certain Regard” at Cannes, and won the Best Actress Award. In 2012, it won Best Canadian Film at the Toronto Film Festival. In 2013, Lafontaine was Associate Producer of TOM AT THE FARM, a psychological thriller directed by Xavier Dolan, based on the play by Michel Marc Bouchard. It was screened in the main competition section at the 70th Venice International Film Festival and also at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival in the Special Presentation section. It won the FIPRESCI Prize at Venice and was shortlisted for Best Picture at the second Canadian Screen Awards. In 2014, she produced Léa Pools THE PASSION OF AUGUSTINE, as well as the directors more recent WORST CASE, WE GET MARRIED (2017) based on the novel by Sophie Bienvenu. She then produced Xavier Dolans THE DEATH AND LIFE OF JOHN F. DONOVAN (2018) and Louis Bélangers VIVRE À 100 MILLES À LHEURE. Nick Hirschkorn NICK HIRSCHKORN (Producer) is the sole owner of Feel Films and co-owner of Oscar winning effects house Milk VFX. Milks credits include “Doctor Who, ” SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN and DREDD. In 2016, Milk won the VFX Oscar for EX MACHINA. After producing numerous award-winning commercials and music videos, Hirschkorn moved into feature films in 2004 with the childrens film 5 CHILDREN & IT, starring Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Izzard and Freddie Highmore. The film was selected as a Gala Film at the Toronto Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and Dubai Film Festival. The film won the BAFTA for Best New British Composer. Nick went on to produce and finance the TV movie “Skellig, ” starring Tim Roth, Kelly Macdonald and John Simm, which opened the Rome Film Festival and pioneered the fusion of TV and independent film financing with Sky TV. More recently, Feel Films produced “Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, ” a 7- part drama for the BBC, adapted from the bestselling book by Susanna Clarke. “Jonathan Strange” won multiple awards including two Bafta Craft awards for VFX and Production Design and Bafta nominations for Costume and Make Up & Hair. The show won an RTS Craft Award for Production Design and was nominated in the VFX category. Deadline Hollywood and the Radio Times placed “Jonathan Strange” in their Top 10 TV Shows of 2015. Jeffrey Caine Screenwriter Born in London in 1944, JEFFREY CAINE (Screenwriter) was educated at the Universities of Sussex and Leeds, where he obtained degrees in Philosophy and English. He taught English in schools and colleges for three years before becoming a professional writer. Married in 1969 and widowed in 1995, he has two daughters and three grandchildren. After writing mainly for British television between 1986 and 1992, he has since concentrated on screenplays, working with directors Richard Attenborough and Ridley Scott, among others. His produced screenplays include GOLDENEYE (1995) INSIDE IM DANCING (a. RORY OSHEA WAS HERE) 2004) THE CONSTANT GARDENER (2005) and EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS (2014. INSIDE IM DANCING won an IFTA Script Award in 2004; THE CONSTANT GARDENER was nominated for Academy and BAFTA Awards. Caines most recent work is BELOVED FRIENDS, a period romantic comedy based on the courtship and early married life of John Quincy Adams and Louisa Johnson. Norman Lebrecht Original Novel NORMAN LEBRECHTs (Original Novel) is a British commentator on music and cultural affairs. He was a columnist for the Daily Telegraph from 1994 to 2002 and assistant editor of London's Evening Standard from 2002 to 2009. He also had two shows on BBC Radio 3: “lebrecht live” and “The Lebrecht Interview. ” His first novel, The Song of Names, won a Whitbread Award in 2002, an annual prize honoring authors based in Britain and Ireland. Whitbread Awards are given for high literary merit but are also dedicated to works whose aim is to convey the enjoyment of reading to the widest possible audience. He is the author of twelve works of non-fiction and three novels. His bestsellers The Maestro Myth, Why Mahler, and The Life and Death of Classical Music have been translated into seventeen languages. His latest, Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World 1847-1947, will be published in October 2019. Lebrechts has a very popular website —. Lebrecht lives in central London and is currently writing another novel. Howard Shore Composer HOWARD SHOREs (Composer) music is performed in concert halls around the world by the most prestigious orchestras and is heard in cinemas across the globe. Shores musical interpretation of J. R. Tolkiens imaginative world of THE LORD OF THE RINGS and THE HOBBIT, as portrayed in the films directed by Peter Jackson, have enthralled people of all generations for years. This work stands as his most acclaimed composition to date awarding him with three Academy Awards, four Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes, as well as numerous critics and festival awards. He is an officer of the Order of Canada, an Officier de lordre des Arts et des Lettres de la France and the recipient of Canadas Governor Generals Performing Arts Award. The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures honored Shore with an award for Career Achievement for Music Composition and the City of Vienna bestowed him with the Max Steiner Award. Shore has received numerous other awards for his career achievements. Shore was one of the original creators of “Saturday Night Live” and served as music director from 1975-1980. At the same time, he began collaborating with David Cronenberg and has since scored fifteen of the directors films, including THE FLY, CRASH, and NAKED LUNCH. He was awarded Canadian Screen Awards for MAPS TO THE STARS for score and COSMOPOLIS for both score and song. His original scores to A DANGEROUS METHOD, EASTERN PROMISES and DEAD RINGERS were each honored with a Genie Award. Shore continues to distinguish himself with a wide range of projects, including five films with Martin Scorsese: HUGO, THE DEPARTED, THE AVIATOR (for which he won his third Golden Globe Award) GANGS OF NEW YORK, and AFTER HOURS. His other credits include ED WOOD, SE7EN, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, PHILADELPHIA, MRS. DOUBTFIRE, and the score for Tom McCarthys Academy Award-winning film SPOTLIGHT. His opera, “The Fly” (2008) which premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and at Los Angeles Opera, recently completed a successful run in Germany at Theatre Trier. His other works include: “Fanfare, ” for the Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia (2008) the piano concerto “Ruin and Memory” (2010) for Lang Lang; the cello concerto “Mythic Gardens” (2012) featuring Sophie Shao; the song cycle “A Palace Upon the Ruins” (2014) featuring mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano; “Sea to Sea” (2017) featuring Measha Brueggergosman, a song for orchestra, soloist, and choir, in celebration of Canadas 150th anniversary of confederation; the song cycle “LAube” (2017) performed by Susan Platts and commissioned by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra; “Latin Mass” (2018) for the Hof Church in Lucerne, Switzerland; and “The Forest” (2019) a guitar concerto composed for Miloš Karadaglić and conducted by Alexander Shelley, for the National Arts Centre Orchestra. Francois Séguin Production Designer French-Canadian FRANCOIS SÉGUIN (Production Designer) previously collaborated with director François Giraud on RED VIOLIN, SILK, and HOCHELAGA, LAND OF SOULS. Based in Montreal, Séguin has designed feature films, television series and live theatrical stage productions all around the world. He has won five Genie Awards for Achievement in Art Direction from the Canadian Academy of Film and Television, and has been nominated twice more. Séguin has also worked on the Cirque du Soleil show, “Zed, ” in Japan. He designed Cirque du Soleils Las Vegas show “Michael Jackson: One, ” and travelled to China to design Dragons production of “The Han Show. ” Séguins feature film credits include: John Crowleys Best Picture-nominated film BROOKLYN, starring Domhnall Gleeson, Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent; Paul McGuigans LUCKY NUMBER, SLEVIN and PUSH; Billy Rays SHATTERED GLASS; Harald Zwarts THE KARATE KID and THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES; and Denys Arcands JESUS OF MONTREAL and THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS. Séguin also designed the acclaimed Showtime television series “The Borgias, ” for director Neil Jordan, which earned him an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Art Direction. David Franco Director of Photography DAVID FRANCO (Director of Photography) has worked as the cinematographer on more than 45 productions. He previously teamed with François Girard on BOYCHOIR, starring Dustin Hoffman. His feature film credits include: Demian Lichtensteins 3000 MILES TO GRACELAND, starring Kevin Costner; Jonathan Lynns THE WHOLE NINE YARDS, with Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry; Mannon Briands LA TURBULENCE DES FLUIDES; Christian Duguays THE ASSIGNMENT, starring Ben Kingsley and Donald Sutherland; and David Wellingtons LONG DAYS JOURNEY INTO NIGHT and A MAN IN UNIFORM, which was showcased at the Cannes Film Festival in the Directors Fortnight and won Best Cinematography Award at the 38th Festival of Valladolid. Recently, Franco shot Francos TV credits include the pilots for “Get Shorty, ” “Minority Report, ” “The Bridge, ” and “Desperate Housewives. ” His work in high-end television episodic includes HBOs “Game of Thrones, ” “Westworld, ” “Boardwalk Empire, ” and “Vinyl, ” as well as “Stranger Things, ” “Ray Donovan, ” “Power, ” “Z: The Beginning of Everything, ” and “Little America. ” He won the Emmy Award for his work on HBOs original movie “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. ” He has received ASC Award nominations for “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, ” “Intensity, ” “Falling for You, ” “Million Dollar Babies, ” and twice for “Boardwalk Empire. ” Born in France, Franco was raised in Zaire where his father worked as a theatre director. After completing his schooling, Franco moved to Montreal to study communications at the University of Quebec, specializing in photography, planning to work as a war photographer. Instead he started his own production company to produce and shoot music videos, and segued into the feature film and television industry. Franco currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Michel Arcand Editor Over a thirty plus year career, MICHEL ARCAND (Editor) has emerged as one of the worlds leading film editors. Arcands work has taken him to France, Hollywood, throughout Europe, all over Canada and the UK. Arcand has both worked on major studio films, such as THE SIXTH DAY and TOMORROW NEVER DIES, and significant French Quebec movies that display the rich voice of such talented filmmakers as Jean Claude Lauzon (UN ZOO LA NUIT, LÉOLO) Léa Pool, and Charles Binamé, among others. Michel has been nominated ten times and was awarded three Genies by the Academy of Canadian Film and Television for Best Achievement in Editing, the latest for his work on THE ROCKET (A. K. MAURICE RICHARD) as well as DGC & Jutra nominations for Outstanding Achievement in Picture Editing. Anne Dixon Costume Designer ANNE DIXONs (Costume Designer) design career spans over thirty years both on stage and on screen including a myriad of genres and periods, seen internationally in theatre, opera, film and television. Dixon has collaborated with such acclaimed directors as Viggo Mortensen, François Girard, Niki Caro, Jeremy Podeswa, Sudz Sutherland, Mick Jackson, Angelica Huston, Paul Mazursky, Kathy Bates, Jeremiah Chechik, and Veronica Tennant. Her film credits include FALLING, BORN TO BE BLUE, LAVENDER TO FUGITIVE PIECES, SAINT RALPH and INTERSTATE 60, among others. Her credits range from television (“Anne with an E”, “Lost Girl”, “XIII”, “Guns”) to dance (“Karen Kain- Dancing in the Moment, ” “The Firebird”) skating (“Battle of the Blades”) to opera (“Don Giovanni Unmasked”. Dixon is a graduate in Art & Design from The University of the Arts London, England. Her many accolades include: the Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award; the Tom Patterson Award, a CSA Award nomination for Best Costume Design for “Anne with an E, ” and a Genie Award for SAINT RALPH. She is a member of the Costume Designers Guild in LA, and is published in Canadian Whos Who and Great Women of the 21st Century. Gallery.
Sometimes a life is shaped more by a missing presence than by its existing relationships and deeds. For most of his life Martin Simmonds has felt this way, ever since Dovidl, the young genius he describes as closer to him than a brother or a homoerotic partner, vanished. The two boys grew up together in wartime London, Dovidl a refugee from the soon-to-be-destroyed Warsaw ghetto. They shared adventure and even a sense of security during the Blitz, after Martins music-impresario father agreed to shelter and mentor the young genius. In late adolescence Dovidl subtly changed. As he prepared for his first public concert, he seemed as consumed by music as ever, but his mysterious late-evening ventures hinted at darker involvements. Dovidl was coping with being the only member of his family to survive, so Martin gave his friends other activities the benefit of the doubt. Then came the night of Dovidls much anticipated concert, but the young genius did not appear. Martins father was almost ruined, both financially and professionally. Martin graduated from Cambridge University, took over his fathers business, married, and had children. With a solid reputation in musicians circles, his seemed to be a moderately successful life. Yet always he felt a hollowness at its core. Forty years later, a chance event hints that Dovidl is still alive. Martins phlegmatic heart leaps up. He springs into uncharacteristic action. Soon the mystery is solved. Or is it? To the very end, both Martins and Dovidls stories pose questions for the reader. Did events really happen the way they tell them? Or is Dovidl a masterful escape artist, and Martins sense of loss just an excuse for underachievement? These questions give the book an unexpected depth. The settings it explores—wartime London, the world of classical musicians, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community existing in conscious challenge to modern Jews—immerse readers in unfamiliar but fascinating subcultures. Norman Lebrecht has had a long career as a music critic and journalist. The Song of Names is his first novel, an impressive addition to his other achievements.
Trailer could have been better, because I don't think it does the film justice. LOOKS GOOD, Finally a movie. 
I saw yesterday. What a precious movie... I really liked it. Find the best for your family See what's streaming, limit strong violence or language, and find picks your kids will love with Common Sense Media Plus. Join now Touching but slow mystery/drama about impact of Holocaust. Get it now Searching for streaming and purchasing options. Common Sense is a nonprofit organization. Your purchase helps us remain independent and ad-free. Get it now on Searching for streaming and purchasing options. Your purchase helps us remain independent and ad-free. X of Y We think this movie stands out for: A lot or a little? The parents' guide to what's in this movie. Priorities shift when we're faced with a traumatic event; we don't all process grief and loss the same way. Perseverance is a theme. Positive Role Models & Representations Film is steeped in Jewish culture, traditions, rituals. On brink of WWII, a British family takes in a musically gifted Jewish Polish boy and treats him like their own. Preteen boys steal with glee and justification. One character expresses his anger by punching another in the face. Depiction of the Blitz, with Londoners joined together in shelters during an air raid. The arm of a dead body is seen protruding from rubble of a bombed home. The term "getting laid" is used and is an important plot point, but there's no visual image of that whatsoever. Boys look at playing cards illustrated with drawings of naked women. "Crap" is said several times. Also one use of "bastard. plus "stupid. t-ts. and "f- king" as an adjective. Drinking, Drugs & Smoking Smoking. Wine consumed during reflective moments. Character jokes that, to relax before a stressful event, he's going to get drunk. What parents need to know Parents need to know that The Song of Names is a somber drama about remembrance set in an environment of classical music and against the backdrop of World War II. The story jumps between three different timelines, one of which centers on the two main characters as preteen boys, who are shown stealing with both glee and justification. Characters drink, and. as the film takes place from 1939 to 1986. they also smoke. Other than one use of "f- k. swearing is mild ( crap. bastard. WWII is part of the plot; Londoners huddle in shelters during a Blitz air raid, and the arm of a dead body is seen protruding from the rubble of a bombed home. A main character vents his anger by punching a man in the face. While it may be difficult for teens to grasp the nuances of the adult characters' decisions, the film is touching and presents some beautiful ideas about loss, grief, trauma, and perseverance. And it thoughtfully showcases Jewish culture, including rituals, traditions, and history. Stay up to date on new reviews. Get full reviews, ratings, and advice delivered weekly to your inbox. Subscribe User Reviews There aren't any reviews yet. Be the first to review this title. What's the story? Adapted from the Norman Lebrecht novel, THE SONG OF NAMES is about Dovidl, a Jewish child and violin virtuoso whose Polish father leaves him in the care of an affluent London family at the beginning of World War II. A decade later, Dovidl disappears on the night of his most important concert. Thirty-five years later, his foster brother, Martin ( Tim Roth) finds a clue that Dovidl may be alive, so he starts searching for his beloved friend. as well as much needed answers. Is it any good? This film is heartfelt and touching, but it isn't necessarily moving. That's not necessarily a bad thing (not everyone really wants a good cry) and the movie does manage to extend understanding. While films remembering the Holocaust aren't unusual, those that show us how the pain of that loss of life manifests in an individual person are far more unusual. We meet Dovidl (called "David" as a child (played at this age by Luke Doyle) whose father makes an impossible decision out of love and sacrifice. As the war wages, David doesn't know whether his Jewish family is dead or alive, and The Song of Names plays out the kind of behavior that can result from that kind of psychological unrest. After David's disappearance, Martin feels a similar unrest because he doesn't know what happened to David. Unfortunately, when Martin eventually does learn the truth, he doesn't seem to be satisfied. a feeling most viewers will second. The film's complex storyline, which jumps back and forth between multiple timeframes, falls victim to the usual book-adaptation trap: There's just too much to condense into two hours to do the story justice. As it stands, it's hard to get attached to either David or Martin, even though the talent of the young actors who play them as children is outstanding and their scenes are the most engaging. As young Martin, newcomer Misha Handley very effectively transmits the jealousy a child would feel toward an interloper suddenly added to his life. taking over half his bedroom and most of his father's attention. But he soon embraces David as a friend, brother, and fellow mischief maker. The matters that relate to the movie's title are profound, but it's hard to appreciate the direction David takes with his transformative experience. At the last minute, we're informed that David may be sympathetic, but he's never been a great guy; that type of complex, highly flawed character plays well in books, but in movies, we wonder why we've spent two hours tracking down a man who we're told was never worth our time. Talk to your kids about... Families can talk about survivor's guilt and its role in The Song of Names. What does that term mean, and what impact does it have in The Song of Names? Does the film make you feel sympathy, empathy, or compassion for David? What's the difference? What do you think of how the film depicts Martin's curiosity and perseverance and the self-control exerted by David as an adult? Do you agree with how they applied these traits and skills? What do you think life might have been like for a kid in WWII-era London? What do you know about the war? How does this film compare to other movies about that time? How does the movie depict Orthodox Judaism? Do you think David's decision on how to live his adult life was warranted? Can you think of other movies that depict this aspect of Judaism? Why is representation important? What are some examples of behavior that Martin and David engage in that we might now deem as unacceptable? Does the film justify that behavior? Do you think it's OK in this context? Movie details In theaters: December 25, 2019 Cast: Tim Roth, Clive Owen, Misha Handley Director: Francois Girard Studio: Sony Pictures Classics Genre: Drama Topics: Book Characters, Brothers and Sisters, Friendship, History Character Strengths: Perseverance Run time: 113 minutes MPAA rating: PG-13 MPAA explanation: some strong language, brief sexual material, thematic elements, and smoking Last updated: January 13, 2020 Character Strengths Themes & Topics Brothers and Sisters See all Our editors recommend Romantic folk tale retold with music and classic Streisand. Powerful true story of a Jewish pianist has brutal violence. Tragic post-WWII tale has violence, death, and cursing. Holocaust drama sensitive, but never sentimental. Wrenching Holocaust fable with bittersweet humor. Common Sense Media's unbiased ratings are created by expert reviewers and aren't influenced by the product's creators or by any of our funders, affiliates, or partners. See how we rate.
He looks less like a Neanderthal than some normal dudes do. When I heard about this, I was like dude no one can play Mr. Rogers. Then I saw it was Tom Hanks and I said ok he can. Well that looks heartbreaking. Le chant des noms film critique. That ending scene was so perfect. A New York City subway packed with people in a dense metro area. And they all recognize him and start singing, including the police officers in the background. That one scene alone perfectly encapsulates the shared humanity within us all which Fred Rogers nurtured.
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Something about this song makes me feel sad, nostalgic and happy at the same time. A estrela de natal 2017 ver online peliculas. 