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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 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. Oct 27, 2009 Full Review David Denby New Yorker The movie, though conventional in form, brings us close to an elemental ferocity just barely held in check. Oct 26, 2009 Full Review Ron Wilkinson Monsters and Critics 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. Rated: 7/10 Nov 10, 2009 Full Review Harvey S. Karten Compuserve The year's most electrifying documentary to date features a charismatic composer who conducts segments from Europe's great classical, operatic and ballet composers. Rated: A- Oct 26, 2009 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member 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). Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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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