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Bel Canto
Roxane Coss is a popular vocalist in the Opera. She is welcome to perform in a party for an acclaimed Japanese writer, Katsumi Hosokawa. By landing there, all who are in the party are hijacked and token as hostages by a risky posse to set their companions out of the prison. The astonishment happen when they presented to a calamity influences them to participate together.
16 October 1968, Paris, France
24 May 1974, Oslo, Norway
September 20, 2018
An illustration of how music can help people reach across political and socioeconomic divides.
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
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 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 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 14, 2018
Powerful drama has language, some upsetting violence.
September 17, 2018
Though Moore and Watanabe are the main focus, Bel Canto delivers the emotional payoff of a well-developed ensemble film.
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 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 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
It's a sturdy, moving piece.