Tag Archives: music documentary

the portrait of the artist as a mother (Film: Bloody Daughter – about Martha Argerich, 2012)

We know about the great musicians of the past only from written stories if they lived and played until the end of the 19th century. We can only imagine and read the stories of the contemporaries about the sound of … Continue reading

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a French dream success story (Film: Ivo Livi dit Yves Montand, 2011)

If this story happened in the USA it would have been labelled as the American Dream story. An Italian immigrant comes to the new country with his three kids. A few years later he receives citizenship. The younger of the … Continue reading

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Al Green – Searching his Soul in Gospel

I am using these days of vacation to catch back with a huge log of reading books and seeing films accumulated during the year. I will of course be able to clear up only a fraction of them. Among these … Continue reading

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