Could not watch it :)

Rating: Null/10 (21 May 2001)

Everyone seems to love this movie... thought I'd throw a bit of contrariness...
Usually I enjoy well-made European movies (and even occasional American ones :). I am not as far into art that I can really enjoy Fellini, but I hope to get there. However, I literally could not watch Red Violin. I barely managed to sit through 15 minutes of it and had to stop. It was completely, unreasonably uninteresting. However, the problem is not with the movie, it's with me.
I don't dig music. I am not tone-deaf, and I enjoy an occasional tune on the radio. (And when I do, violin isn't my favorite instrument. It's too squeaky, IMO :) I own only maybe a couple of CDs, and do not have any urge to buy any more or to listen to music in general. And apparently, the movie loses everything when you take out the interest in music. Without it, the first 15 minutes of the movie is just a soap-opera-style sequence of events, totally bland and non-gripping. I simply do not care what happens to the instrument and to the protagonists.
I wish I could say it's a masterpiece... I did not see it as such.