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Genre
  
Drama

Duration
  

Director
  
Alessandro Baricco

Music director
  
Mario Brunello

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Writer
  
Alessandro Baricco

Initial release
  
October 17, 2008 (Italy)

Running time
  
1h 44m

Screenplay
  
Alessandro Baricco

Lecture 21 movie poster

Cast
  
John Hurt
,
Noah Taylor
,
Leonor Watling
,
Clive Russell

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Lecture 21 (aka 'Lezione 21' 'Lesson 21') is a 2008 British-Italian film written and directed by Alessandro Baricco and starring John Hurt, Noah Taylor and Leonor Watling. The film is in English.

Contents

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The film is set in 1824, 1997 and 2007 and tells the tale of a Professor (John Hurt) delivering a lecture about a musician (Noah Taylor) coming to a remote village in the mountains to better understand Beethoven's 9th symphony before he dies. The film is presented as a documentary, as Leonor Watling and her friends recall the lesson, the audience views what happens as though it were real. The lesson is interspersed with documentary-style interviews of a variety of musicians, who provide a secondary narration.

It also features Clive Russell, Matthew T. Reynolds, Daniel Tuite, Andy Gathergood, Rasmus Hardiker, Michael Jibson and Natalia Tena.

It had its North American premiere at the Miami International Film Festival in 2009.

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Reception

The film received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise mostly focusing on its cinematography. It currently holds a 100% critical score on Rotten Tomatoes based on 1 review and a 57% audience score based on 402 reviews (as of September 2015), together indicating generally mixed reviews. It is not listed on Metacritic.

Kent Turner of Film-Forward.com described it as 'a brisk, irreverent music-history lesson by way of Terry Gilliam'.

References

Lecture 21 Wikipedia
Lecture 21 IMDb Lecture 21 themoviedb.org