She was paralyzed in a wheelchair alone, her long blond hair was loose, and the sky was overcast. She put the record on with her unruly hands, and at the age of 16, the Elgar Violin Concerto, which made her leap to the sky, played perfectly again without any regrets. She saw the outside room, the yellow silk performance dress in front of the window was blown up by the wind, like a dazzling fairy dress that fell from the sky, but she could no longer reach it, so she cried bitterly, still young, but only tears of despair.
——The moment in the film "Hilary and Jackie" This moment
that can tear people to pieces is perhaps the closest to Jacqueline Dupree.
"Hilary and Jackie" has a kitsch-friendly translation "She's Lonely Than Fireworks". If the film stops after Jackie reaches out to his sister for her husband, and succeeds, I'm okay with that kitsch title. Halfway through the film, this kind of sisterhood is so perverted that it's hard for me to accept it. But it's a serious biopic, just so well done that it looks like it's made up, which isn't often the case.
This is the biographical film of the talented British cellist Jacqueline Dupre, based on the biography co-authored by Dupre's sister Hilary and her younger brother Pierce. The plot in the play is real and believable.
But I have to say, after seeing the black and white photo of Dupree herself, I didn't find Emily Orson's role in the movie convincing. Emily's looks are not innocent enough, she is a little arrogant and arrogant in the play, even before she is terminally ill. In the black-and-white photo, Dupree herself is as pure, beautiful and innocent as an angel. This expression naturally attracts the favor of others. It is the kind of look that no matter what she does wrong, others will make her forgive her. This will directly lead to doubts, how much Dupree can this film restore?
As soon as Emily's face appeared on the screen, I was reminded of "Paradise Cinema", the old lover who Duoduo made famous decades later and returned to his hometown. On the dark seaside cliff, they were sitting in the car, and she said anxiously, "don't turn on the lights", because she didn't want him to see his old face. The face of the woman who was the yellow flower yesterday silently shed tears in the darkness surrounded by the sound of the tide.
That's true, you don't feel like she's acting at all. It's just that in "Hilary and Jackie", the innate honor and innocence of Dupree, the arrogant girl, is something she can't do.
The best thing is the dubbing of the film, which is taken from the cello played by Dupree during his lifetime. These unique sounds with Duprey's complex emotions can immediately bring people into the mood of the story.
I can understand that her husband had another family in Paris in the later stage of her illness. She was in bed for a long time. His responsibility and obligation was to visit her frequently and provide financial support. In the end, she was in his pregnancy. died in. The calamity and terminal illness is her tragedy. God has given her extraordinary talents, and she has also suffered pain that ordinary people cannot understand.
The most touching thing is that Jackie was shaking violently on the hospital bed before he died. Her sister Hilary came to her, hugged her, and talked about her childhood. Jackie's violent pathological shaking miraculously stopped slowly Negative Oscar nomination for best actress), but fortunately, when she was dying, her heart returned to peace and tranquility. This is not the director's mercy, but the fact that the friendship between the two sisters is beyond comprehension and touching.
In the movie, I prefer the warm and reserved sister.
Inside and outside the film, Dupree's cello has been unforgettable for a long time.
Regarding Dupree's piano sound, we are most familiar with "Sorrow" used in "A Chinese Ghost Story". But the best one, I personally think is "Elgar Violin Concerto". She played such a rich and full passion at the age of 16. Such depth caused a huge sensation in the classical music industry at that time. With such talent, she was born with Convincing.
The Hungarian cellist Stark once traveled by train and heard Jacqueline Dupre’s performance for the first time and said: “I am afraid that if she puts all the complicated and contradictory feelings into the cello to play, it is not at all possible. don't live long."
Before long, Dupree contracted multiple sclerosis, lingering on the bed, and died in his early 40s.
Her peerless talent, her love life, her embarrassing fate, and the "sorrow" of her cello are indescribable.
Her favorite instrument is "Davidoff Stradivari", now owned by Chinese cellist Yo-Yo Ma, but for "Davidoff" and "Elgar Violin Concerto", except for Jacqueline The other cellists other than Dupree were like passers-by with a lack of friendship.
The famous Indian-Jewish conductor Zubin Mehta, who once conducted the performances of Jacqueline Dupree during his glorious period, is full of praise for Jacqueline Dupree's genius playing full of spirituality and passion . After Dupre's death, Zubin Mehta conducted the Elgar Violin Concerto in a performance, and at the end of the first chapter burst into tears and could not continue, and has never conducted the piece since.
I was reminded of the scene in the movie that was like a thunderous shock.
In the gray sky, gray air, on the wheelchair where she was paralyzed alone, the "Elgar Violin Concerto" sounded flawlessly.
That yellow dress that was blown by the wind was extremely beautiful, out of reach, watching her cry.
At the moment of leading to Dupree, the door of music opened, and the sound of the cello surged in like a tide, accompanied by the decisive decision of the storm-Shang.
Relevant information
Edward Elgar (1857-1934), a British composer, studied piano and violin with his father since childhood. He was very diligent and mastered the performance of various musical instruments mainly through self-study, especially the violin. In 1885, he inherited his father's business as Worcester Church organist. His music is real and natural, full of innovative spirit, which has greatly promoted the development of British music. His wife, Caroline Alice Roberts, helped him a lot. Almost all of his successful works were created after marriage. The famous ones include: Cantata "Dream of Geronius", "Violin Concerto in B Minor", "Symphony No. 1", "Symphony No. 2", "Cello Concerto in E minor", chorus "Black Knight" and "King Olaf", etc. His art is not limited and his thinking is extremely broad. Influenced by romanticism, the style is solemn and simple, and the British people regard him as the British Beethoven.
He devoted his life to improving the level of music in Britain, and was knighted and awarded the Order of Merit in 1904. In addition, he also received doctorate degrees in music from Cambridge University, Oxford University, Canterbury and Yale University in the United States.
Elgar's cello concerto is the product of the composer in 1919, and it is also Elgar's last large-scale work. In fact, this concerto, like Elgar's two symphonies, belongs to the majestic masterpiece of the late romantic era. The best work of Elgar's later years. This is an elegy-like work, compact, concise and disillusioned. This work, which was born after the First World War, seems to be nostalgic for the glory of the British Empire in the past, but its personal flavor is quite strong. Elegant melody around the beam for three days. Its melodic beauty, which begins with a lyrical flavor, is also rare in Elgar's works, who are particularly fond of long phrases.
This cello concerto is in fact enough to rank with Dvorak's Cello Concerto in B minor as the greatest must-have of its kind, and it has now taken an unbreakable place in the cello repertoire as Elgar representative logo. Elgar's deep orchestral insight is also evident in this piece, as he uses a large, neatly arranged band, but writes the concerto part extremely pared down, making it relatively easy for the solo cello to stand out.
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