1980 · drama · music
The Conductor
Directed by Andrzej Wajda1h 41m1980
A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out he was once in love with violinist's mother. The conductor, a slightly unstable hypochondriac, returns to Poland to lead the provincial orchestra. He also tries to revive old love affair using the violinist as a surrogate of her mother. Her husband is resentful of the conductor for both personal and professional reasons.
Our read: The Conductor (1980) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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