The Ludwig Van Picture Show//The red violin

The red violin – Academy Award for Best soundtrack in 2000 – is a movie obsessively focused on on the adventures, even tragical ones, of a mythical object: a seventeenth-century violin.
The movie was realized by Canadian filmmaker François Girard all over the world: Italy, Austria, China, Usa.
It traces back the history of a red violin, a masterpiece made by lute maker Nicolò Bussotti. The violin is found in the eighteenth century in the hands of an horphan, a prodigious child entrusted to some monks in a castle. The child, overcome by anxiety for an audition with the court, dies suffocating.  Later on, the violin is being played in the nineteenth century by Mr. Pope, a composer and violinist who used to play it in order to make his erotic dates more exciting. Then the instrument moved to China, during the cultural revolution, a period that relegated violins among western demons instruments. Finally, the violin arrived to Montreal, to be sold in an auction to a public of avid passionates.
Free entrance.

Venice, Palazzo Cini at San Vio
4 October 2008, 17.00

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