The Silence Before Bach

The Silence Before Bach

7.3

Dec 21 2007

2h 42m

Music

This latest feature from the eccentrically experimental Catalan director Portabella is a beautiful, sometimes faintly bonkers celebration and contemplation of the role Bach’s music plays in the world today. Blending historical reconstruction with very loosely linked ‘dramatic’ scenes and documentary sequences, the film constitutes a playful, painterly sequence of variations on the argument that Johann Sebastian changed the way the world hears thanks to his extraordinary ear for harmony.

Christian Atanasiu

Christian Atanasiu

Mayordomo

Féodor Atkine

Féodor Atkine

Vendedor de Pianos

Georg Christoph Biller

Georg Christoph Biller

Self

Christian Brembeck

Christian Brembeck

J. S. Bach