Farinelli

Farinelli

  • Director: Gérard Corbiau
  • Writer: Andrée Corbiau,Gérard Corbiau,Marcel Beaulieu
  • Countries of origin: France, Italy, Belgium, United Kingdom
  • Language: French, Italian
  • Release date: March 17, 1995
  • Runtime: 1 hour 51 minutes
  • Sound mix: Dolby, Dolby SR
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: 絕代艷姬
  • "Farinelli" is a musical drama film directed by Gerard Corbio and starring Stefano Dionisi and Enrico Lo Verso .
    The film tells the legendary experience and love story of the castrato singer Buccaro   . The film was released in France on December 7, 1994.

    Details

    • Release date March 17, 1995
    • Filming locations Spain
    • Production companies Stéphan Films, MG, Italian International Film

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $1,573,411

    Gross worldwide

    $1,600,226

    Movie reviews

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    • By Dayana 2022-12-22 23:50:49

      Where is the phantom, where is the enchantress!

      The solitary echoes of intense sadness, deep pain, and unparalleled singing against a gorgeous baroque background were never expected to be so moving until I watched it.

      Dandan said that the film reminded her of Farewell My Concubine. Faranelli is a kind of physical castration, while Cheng Dieyi is spiritual.

      In fact, Carlo has always lived as a real man. Maybe he doesn't care about his talent and his good voice, and he is not a fan of music. However, the brothers who...

    • By Valentin 2022-12-21 03:39:35

      European Personality and Traditional Opera Charm

      There are several places that make a deep impression on the film. The first is the love relationship between men and women in Europe at that time. The verbal teasing or physical relationship between each other was very direct, without too much concealment or subtlety.

      The second is mutual coexistence, focusing on mutual respect and politeness, but at the same time, the words between conversations will not have too many Chinese-style "ceremonies" or cover up personal opinions....

    • By Cade 2022-12-20 11:34:43

      open to full

            Beautiful to make people faint on stage scene, gorgeous and beautiful singing, supreme musical status~~~ He has what all singers dream of. But his song "Let Me Cry" made me hear the pain in his heart, the pain that can't be expressed, the pain that can't shed tears~~~ What kind of pain
           should the eyes
         that want to cry without tears make him so Falling down without resistance The
         people who can't love the ones who can't love will
         live in grief all their...

    • By Kathleen 2022-12-17 14:00:33

      Castrato

      The 1994 film was shot like the 1984 Amadeus - maybe some people even retorted "How can it compare to "Mozart"? The director's narration is very calm, and I see beauty in it, the beauty that is unique to Baroque art, the gorgeous beauty, the dizzying and suffocating beauty. The joy of that era was built on the sorrow of those castratos.

      "In my eyes, you are just a singing machine." Handel said with contempt and unwillingness. For the first time I've seen people hate because of...

    • By Aurelio 2022-12-12 19:34:26

      life is unbearable

         When I watched it for the first time, I had a feeling—the arias in it were really beautiful, and I was a little overwhelmed when I heard it, and I didn’t have time to study the plot of the movie. The combing of the plot is completed when the film is played repeatedly in order to relive the arias in it. When the plot of the story is clear in the mind bit by bit, the inner emotions of the characters in the play are also infiltrated bit by bit. After a thorough understanding of the story,...

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    • By Jake 2023-07-09 23:03:20

      Like a fake (not) implicitly out-of-the-closet GAY movie, a pseudo-biographical movie with two male protagonists without even a heroine, the ending is that the brothers share their love for the last time by sharing a woman, and then the older brother leaves the younger brother a The child went far away, while the younger brother continued to read letters from afar while wearing the same ring as the older brother's. The music is naturally extremely beautiful. The movie that was heard in the name...

    • By Monserrate 2023-06-25 14:22:03

      What the hell! Singing, making love, singing, making love, singing and making...

    • By Vincenzo 2023-06-07 16:31:13

      It's so sad to sing based on pain, but maybe he'll find freedom in it. The human body may not be absolutely free, but the heart can. If you only see what you can't have, and trap yourself in a corner, how hopeless. You can be happy now, please be happy now. Form is not the soul of content, love is in one's own...

    • By Joana 2023-05-28 12:10:27

      I watched the movie more than ten years ago. The story taught me a piece of history and a moving life. The eunuch's voice was very pleasant, but there seemed to be strands of sadness in his voice. Maybe it was my association when I was watching a movie, and then I wanted to find some castrato singer's records to listen to, but such records are hard to find, after all, it's history that has already been turned...

    • By Roel 2023-05-18 23:53:31

      Sacrificing the younger brother and protecting the elder brother, the last wish of the old father is very similar to the countless parents in China, overdrafting the happiness of the daughter to maintain the life of the son. Thinking of this, I still believe that maybe people’s joys and sorrows are not the same, at least in There are similarities in being ridiculed by fate. At the same time, I also thought that I saw someone talking about "Big Breasts and Fat Buttocks" on Weibo a few days ago....

    Movie plot

    When Buccaro ( Stefano Dionisi ) fell ill as a child, his brother Brica ( Enrico Lo Verso ) castrated him to preserve his beautiful voice. Buccarlo has since become popular with his voice, which is somewhere between the high-pitched male and the softer female voice. Brothers also made an agreement to share everything they got. But the music master Handel looked down on the Buccalo brothers who maintained their voices by castration....
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    Background creation

    The Catholic Church believes that child voices can express faith in God more strongly. Castration was common in most European countries in the 16th century and peaked in the 17th and 18th centuries, when most castrated people participated in church choirs or opera troupes. The "castrat singers" are trained by castrated boys to maintain unaltered voices in adulthood, with both a higher range and the strength of a male voice; they can...
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    Evaluation action

    The film recreates the legend of Farinelli and gives it a half-true love story. The film conquered the audience with its beautiful music, beautiful voice and legendary plot   . (Sohu Entertainment Review) The relationship between the two brothers is very delicate and complicated. The elder brother castrated him to keep his younger brother and his pure and beautiful childish voice, but he regretted it for the rest of his life. This...
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    Movie quotes

    • Carlo Broschi: I admire your nerve, madame, in daring to defy Handel.

      Countess Mauer: Women are very strong, signor Farinelli. Men's weaknesses make it necessary.

    • Carlo Broschi: [on Riccardo's opera "Orpheo"] You'll never finish it!

    • Riccardo Broschi: Castrato! Castrato!