The Red Violin 1998 123movies

Watch: Le violon rouge 1998 123movies, Full Movie Online – In present day Montreal, a famous Nicolo Bussotti violin, known as “the red violin,” is being auctioned off. During the auction, we flash back to the creation of the violin in 17th century Italy, and follow the violin as it makes its way through an 18th century Austrian monastery, a violinist in 19th century Oxford, China during the Cultural Revolution, and back to Montreal, where a collector tries to establish the identity and the secrets of “the red violin.”.
Plot: 300 through the years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake. In Montreal, Samuel L Jackson plays an appraiser going over its complex history.
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Ratings:

	7.6/10 Votes: 33,299
	74% | RottenTomatoes
	57/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 332 Popularity: 12.111 | TMDB

Reviews:

A wonderful and very musical movie.
Independent movies or Asian and European films (to make it easy, let’s say all movies that haven’t been produced by some big Hollywood studio), always seem to have a certain group of fans, not because they are good, but because they are “different”. That so-called in-crowd believes that every movie that hasn’t been made by a big studio is great art and that all other movies are bad. Never tell them that sometimes the opposite can be true, because they can’t and won’t believe you. Well, I’m not one of them and I watch all movies with a critical eye. And yes, I try to see as many of those “alternative” movies as well. But that’s just because I’m a movie buff who is interested in all kinds of movies, not because I’m convinced that this kind of movies is automatically a lot better than the rest.

In this movie we don’t follow some people, but a violin on its journey through time and the world. The movie starts in present day Montreal, where “the red violin”, a famous Nicolo Bussotti violin, is being auctioned off. But instead of staying with the auction all the time, we flash back to the creation of the violin in 17th century Italy and then follow it as it makes its way through an 18th century Austrian monastery/orphanage, a violinist in 19th century Oxford and China during Mao’s Cultural Revolution… Each time it brings the person who owns it a lot of fame, but also bad luck and despair, often resulting in the death of the owner or someone the owner really loves…

What I appreciated in this movie is that it wasn’t just an ordinary drama or thriller. It actually tried to be original and it succeeded very well. Another thing that I also really liked was the fact that not every detail of the movie was clear until the end (for instance why the fortune teller’s predictions come true, but not for the woman, but for the violin instead.). It sometimes seems that the creators of movies don’t even bother about adding some mystery in their movies anymore and I really miss that. That’s probably why I liked it so much in this one.

Once in a while you come across a movie that you might call a gem. Well, “The Red Violin” is one of those truly magnificent gems. It’s beautiful in every possible way. The music is excellent (although you better love violin music, because that’s all you’ll here), the acting is very nice and the story really is very beautiful. I guess I could talk for hours about this movie, but it’s better to watch it than to read about it, so I’ll end my review by saying that this is a wonderful and very musical movie that doesn’t deserve any less than an 8.5/10.

A wonderful ride, a bit thin by the end, but great mise-en-scene meanwhile
The Red Violin (1998)

A total romantic fiction, rather compelling in its construction over many centuries, and beautifully wrought in each era.

I don’t suppose the violin needs romanticizing, nor does it need a kind of obvious group hug view of its history, but that’s the feel good, up and down, loving story it takes. First there is the small violin shop where it is made, and the tragedy around this particular model, the maker’s last. It’s supposed to come from the same era as the Strad and other timeless fiddles. It’s a great place to begin a story filled with mysteries (and the mystery of a great violin, it’s shape, wood, and varnish, is given high tech reinforcement in the end with an electronic awe). So the violin is born.

And it moves from a Austrian orphanage (with an unbelievable prodigy) to generations of gypsies (some interesting filming with the violin suspended in space as one after another player takes it up) to a crackpot British prodigy (who acts more like a rock star and an indulgent one, if that’s not redundant). Finally it winds its way (not so improbably, because life is weird) to China, which of course echoes the modern rise of the Asian virtuosi coming from that part of the world.

So the tale is the history of a violin, a possessed one. The spirit of the instrument seems to inhabit the movie. This is reinforced by an Italian fortune-teller (a kindly witch) who has an early Tarot deck. The Tarot was not used for divination that early–it was introduced a card game in Northern Italy in the late 1400s–but that’s okay, because it works into the plot really well. Five cards are chosen by the pregnant wife of the master violin maker. Each is turned over for another twenty minute chapter in the movie. In a key moment, the wife asks the fortune teller, what if I don’t like what it says, what if it’s evil? And the fortune teller says, “I’ll pretend not to notice.”

Promptly the moon is the first card, the most ominous card in the deck (I’ve studied tarot a bit, which is why, weirdly enough, I watched the movie). But the fortune teller doesn’t say that doom is facing the pregnant wife. Instead she lies, and the movie takes one turn after another.

You might think this is brilliant stuff, and it has the trappings of that. It could have been, with some slight twist of intentions, artfully transcendent. But it’s a hair long at times, and by the last (modern) scenes, a bit cold and unfulfilling. I don’t know the solution to what might have worked, but I know it left me interested and curious by the end, not quite bowled over, which is clearly (on the sleeve) the intention.

Still, an engaging, musically rich tapestry of great scenes, great music, and a brimming story. Recommended, with slight reservations.

Other Information:

Original Language fr
Runtime 2 hr 10 min (130 min), 2 hr 20 min (140 min) (France)
Budget 18000000
Revenue 9495408
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Music, Mystery
Director François Girard
Writer Don McKellar, François Girard
Actors Carlo Cecchi, Jean-Luc Bideau, Christoph Koncz
Country Canada, Italy, United States, United Kingdom, Austria
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 20 wins & 19 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory AstralTech, Montreal, Canada
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm