"Geliebte Clara" is a 2008 film starring Martina Gedeck, one of Germany's most famous actresses and the central female character in Academy Award winner "Das Leben der Anderen". This movie came out two years later. Gedeck plays the wife of famous composer Robert Schumann. This relationship is a central part of the movie, but also her relationship with another composer, Johannes Brahms. If you are into classic music, you will have heard of these and you will probably also enjoy the music in this movie.
Sadly, to me there was no true focus in this film. A lot of it is about the role of women in the 19th century and what happens when Gedeck's character tries to make an impact beyond gender classifications. However, the film does not really go beyond the surface there. Scenes with a woman and a man conducting an orchestra are amusing, but not particularly memorable. Also, I never felt too interested in the relationships of Clara, with any of the two men, so I did not really have a favorite I would cheer for. It left me very much unattached and finally I have to say that Schumann was maybe the most interesting character of the movie, even if he was not the numer-1 lead character.
The film runs for slightly over 100 minutes and a large part of the cast is French (including the two lead actors). It was directed by Helga Sanders-Brahms, fittingly a distant relative of Johannes Brahms. She also is one of the three writers credited with this project, a trio of females. Cannot really recommend this movie, unless you really are curious about the composers featured in here, even if i am not sure how accurate and historically correct the film is.
Sadly, to me there was no true focus in this film. A lot of it is about the role of women in the 19th century and what happens when Gedeck's character tries to make an impact beyond gender classifications. However, the film does not really go beyond the surface there. Scenes with a woman and a man conducting an orchestra are amusing, but not particularly memorable. Also, I never felt too interested in the relationships of Clara, with any of the two men, so I did not really have a favorite I would cheer for. It left me very much unattached and finally I have to say that Schumann was maybe the most interesting character of the movie, even if he was not the numer-1 lead character.
The film runs for slightly over 100 minutes and a large part of the cast is French (including the two lead actors). It was directed by Helga Sanders-Brahms, fittingly a distant relative of Johannes Brahms. She also is one of the three writers credited with this project, a trio of females. Cannot really recommend this movie, unless you really are curious about the composers featured in here, even if i am not sure how accurate and historically correct the film is.