I don't know if I am interested in the fate of a musical instrument

Rating: 4/10 (6 January 2002)

I was quite distressed, when they repeated the promising auction scene again and again, and, instead of continuing with it, they switched back to all these rather unnecessary episodes from the past, where all the characters were portrayed so roughly  obviously because there wasn't a lot of runtime left for each of the episodes  that the stories become, well, not interesting.
As Jim Jarmusch has shown us in `Night on Earth', it is possible to give perfect character descriptions of two or three people within a small story of twenty minutes. The makers of `The Red Violin' could have achieved this as well, but they were not interested in people, they were interested in a musical instrument. I don't know if I am interested in the fate of a violin. In fact, the score of this movie is really beautiful and unusual. John Corigliano has absolutely deserved his Academy Award. It's for his music that I give this movie 4 points out of 10.