Le Concert in Port Fairy

This month's Port Fairy Film Society, Friday night screening brings a memorable musical experience in the French film Le Concert, an award winning comedy drama.

Continuing on with the great run of quality movies shown at Port Fairy this year the story of Le Concert unfolds going back thirty years ago, when Andrei Filipov, the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he learns by accident that... read more the Châtelet Theater in Paris invites the Bolshoi orchestra to play there. He decides to gather together his former musicians and to perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra. As a solo violin player to accompany his old Jewish or Gypsy musicians he wants Anne-Marie Jacquet, a young virtuoso. If they all overcome the hardships ahead this very special concert will be a triumph.For music lovers the high point of the movie is the award winning musical score and performance of Tchaikovsky’s concerto.

“Cinema Autopsy’ reviewer Thomas Caldwell describes “Le Concert [as] delivering one of cinema's most moving and satisfying emotional payoffs in years, transforming a film that is pretty good into a film of true greatness”.

Le Concert is rated M and commences at 7:30pm on Friday June 18^th at the Reardon Theatre Bank Street Port Fairy. Membership tickets go on sale from 7:10pm. Free tea and coffee and sweets for sale.