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Bel Canto
A dramatic and exciting movie that follows Roxane Coss, the famous Opera singer who is invited to participate in a party that made by an important Japanese figure. After some time there, a gang attack the party and take people there as hostages to get their friends out of the prison. Hostages and kidnappers, they spend one month together through which they learn many valuable things.
9 November 1974, Yokohama, Japan
31 May 1962, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
16 October 1968, Paris, France
February 27, 1967 in Hamburg, West Germany
3 December 1960, Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
September 20, 2018
Oddly assembled and never quite convincing either as a human interest drama, a love story, or a thriller, Bel Canto tries to be a lamentation when it might have been better served to scream.
September 13, 2018
Bel Canto gets pitchy at times, but it's a strong character piece that warrants a box seat to take in this performance.
September 14, 2018
Powerful drama has language, some upsetting violence.
September 20, 2018
All I could think was that it takes more daring than was available here to save this movie from looking like a cross-cultural summer camp.
September 17, 2018
A song for all those caught up in conflicts that overwhelm their dreams, Bel Canto is lyrical, melodic, melancholy.
September 14, 2018
It's a sturdy, moving piece.
September 20, 2018
An illustration of how music can help people reach across political and socioeconomic divides.
September 19, 2018
The film empathetically shows its characters' humanity and the unlikely relationships that develop between captor and captive, as political, linguistic and socioeconomic barriers break down amid their close quarters and shared awe for the music.
September 14, 2018
What makes every iteration of Bel Canto such a richly rewarding journey is the gradual evolution of its characters, who begin to form a makeshift family as the outside world grows more distant with every passing hour.
September 14, 2018
The film's failure to modulate its tone, its intensity and its messaging makes it a dreary, one-note production. Worse yet, it's flat.
September 17, 2018
Moore, like an upmarket version of Lina Lamont, in "Singin' in the Rain," lip-synchs convincingly to the sound of Renée Fleming. But not quite convincingly enough.
September 17, 2018
Though Moore and Watanabe are the main focus, Bel Canto delivers the emotional payoff of a well-developed ensemble film.
