The Devil's Violinist (2013)
Directed by Bernard Rose
The life story of Italian violinist and composer, Niccolò Paganini, who rose to fame as a virtuoso in the early 19th Century.
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(The Devil’s Violinist tries to hit a lot of the same notes as Amadeus … but misses all the charm, suspense, and drama.
It's squarely in the tradition of such hokey musical memoirs as A Song to Remember (Chopin played by Cornel Wilde), Song of Love (Paul Henreid and Robert Walker, Jr., as Schumann and Brahms, respectively), Song without End (Liszt played by Dirk Bogarde), with the added modern, raffish wildness of the Oscar-winning Amadeus (Thomas Hulce as Mozart) and Rose's own tacky but popular Immortal Beloved (Gary Oldman as Beethoven) thrown in for very great measure.
But “laying it on pretty thick” is a consistent groove for The Devil’s Violinist, which tries to remake Milos Forman and Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus with a different real-life subject, and without the enmity that defined Shaffer’s story.