in one word: grandiose

Rating: 9/10 (30 September 2003)

I first saw the movie when I was around 8 years old. An old tape on which we taped over later. But I still remember the emotion I had at that time.
Since then I have seen the movie again and I must say that I am every time delighted since the emotion is intact. The play it is based on invents this rivalry between these two passionate music lovers and brings a canvas of love, hate, respect, betrayal and magic.
Milos Forman brings here a vision of the play in its most superb aspects such as the scenes extracted from several operas. Everyone will, after seeing this movie, remember the two main actors (F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce) but on my part the acting of the others have much to do with the quality of the movie such as the priest (Richard Frank), the father (Roy Dotrice), the emperor Joseph (Jeffrey Jones) and last but not least: Constanze (Elizabeth Berridge).
Great movie, I never get tired of watching it My grade: 10/10