I have never understood why this film garnered the accolades it did.

Rating: 1/10 (3 January 2019)

I was assuming this would be a study of the composer that was focused on his music - instead what I got was 'Animal House' antics by the main character - Mozart. It seems this film was from the 1970's directors mindset of Altman or Mazursky....if a critical insightful scene can be turned into slapstick then full speed ahead. As another reviewer stated save for F. Murray Abraham there wasn't another actor or actress worth a darn in this mess..
Mozart was a genius and also had deep faith as noted by his final compositions - you'd never know it by this pathetic biopic just as the powers that be omitted in their biopic of Dutch Shultz in 'Billy Bathgate' his (Schultz) pleading to have someone get him a Catholic Priest to baptize and hear his confession before he died in Newark-NJ. His wish was fulfilled but Hollywood made sure that troubling fact wasn't included.