Even more than I hoped for.

Rating: 9/10 (12 June 2019)

No movie or TV series is perfect. That's why this one gets 9 from me rather than a perfect 10.
As a piece of cinema, it is magnificent. Everything about the whole movie is wonderful - the script is exceptionally well written, the acting first rate, the cinematography exquisitely beautiful, the music sublime and the story line intelligent and believable.
In fact, I thought for some of the movie's length that it might in fact have been a true story based on research about the history of a particular violin. This just serves to make the movie even more interesting and wonderful.
I maintain a list of movies in my large collection of DVDs and Blu-rays that I can happily watch regularly. "The Red Violin" goes straight into that list. I couldn't recommend it more highly.
JMV