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You Cannot Start Without Me: Valery Gergiev, Maestro

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A year of conductor Valery Gergiev's life.

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Michelle Orange Village Voice 10/27/2009
Footage from various rehearsals (Gergiev is imported to orchestras around the world, like a talisman) gives a strong sense of his struggle to locate and elicit the emotional effect he seeks from his musicians. Go to Full Review David Denby The New Yorker 10/26/2009
The movie, though conventional in form, brings us close to an elemental ferocity just barely held in check. Go to Full Review Ron Wilkinson Monsters and Critics 11/10/2009
7/10
An unabashed sales job for symphonic Russian legend Valery Gergiev produces some of the most beautiful music in any video as well as some insight into the current maestro of maestros. Go to Full Review Harvey S. Karten Compuserve 10/26/2009
A-
The year's most electrifying documentary to date features a charismatic composer who conducts segments from Europe's great classical, operatic and ballet composers. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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11/04/2010 An excellent behind-the-scenes look at the work life of the first-class artist and administrator (and, face it, the legacy of Soviet artistic and multicultural policy, of course largely wasted internationally on typically dull bourgeois audiences and now on behalf of post-Soviet Russian monopoly capitalist cultural nationalism). See more Read all reviews
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Allan Miller

Director

Allan Miller

Producer

R. Douglas Sheldon

Executive Producer

Margaret Smilow

Executive Producer

Allan Miller

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Movie Info

Synopsis A year of conductor Valery Gergiev's life.
Director
Allan Miller
Producer
Allan Miller
Production Co
Thirteen / WNET
Genre
Documentary, Music
Original Language
English
Release Date (DVD)
Jan 26, 2010
Runtime
1h 26m