Under-rated

Rating: Null/10 (30 December 2000)

A very interesting and spell-bounding story of what seems to be a 'cursed' but sought after violin throughout the centuries.
I had the great opportunity of watching this film with the crew of the "Shanghai" scene and I was very impressed. It has been a long time since the last time I had watched a film and went WOW. With great acting and beautiful music score, this film should have had a massive distribution, over here in England I was told it was in cinemas for only a week or so.
Unfortunately, I believe that this is one of those films that I can only watch once or at least watch it again after a very long time. When I first watched Red Violin I walked out of the room very satisfied that I was one of the first to watch this film (or so I'm told), but then I watched it again after I bought it on DVD and was not as impressed as the first time. I guess it was just the impact of the story that got me the first time but since I knew what was going to happen it just didn't hit me as much.
So to those out there who is thinking about watching this movie...watch it and savour it.