Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.
Láskavá komédia o mužovi, ktorý sa domnieval, že už nemôže byť horšie a netušil, že práve prežíva najkrajšie chvíle svojho života. Františkovi už prešediveli fúzy. Kolja ešte nedosiahol školský vek a stretli sa vďaka tragikomickej životnej situácii. Tí dvaja zostali nakoniec sami. Starý mládenec a chlapec, ktorí si navzájom nerozumejú a to vo všetkých smeroch. Čaká ich dlhá a zložitá cesta za úsmevom a láskou ...
The tragic story of world-renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.
Porter Stoddard is a well-known New York architect who is at a crossroads... a nexus where twists and turns lead to myriad missteps, some with his wife Ellie, others with longtime friends Mona and her husband Griffin. Deciding which direction to take often leads to unexpected encounters with hilarious consequences.
Otvorený postoj voči kritikom a ich kvázi erudovanému hodnoteniu umeleckých diel predstavuje vynikajúceho a jedinečného Jarla Kulleho v úlohe Cornelia a mnohé z Bergmanových najlepších herečiek. Namyslený hudobný kritik Cornelius prichádza do domu slávneho violončelistu Felixa, aby o ňom napísal knihu. Dostať sa však do blízkosti umelca sa javí ako načisto nemožné. Našťastie, v jeho dome žije dosť žien, ktoré môžu podľa všetkého o živote umelca veľa porozprávať. Pikantné historky sú tak živnou pôdou pre mladého „škrabáka“ a jeho knihu.
Prades, France, 1940s. The exiled Catalan cellist Pau Casals decides not to perform any more in public until the fall of the dictatorship that oppresses Spain. Pierre, a young Frenchman studying with Casals, tries to convince him to celebrate an extraordinary concert as a tribute to freedom.
A cellist and a pianist, along with the daughter of the owner of a musical home, form a classical trio. A television producer challenges confronting the modern equipment. Accept and so begin a new career in popular music, so despises his former employer, thus limiting the affair between his daughter and one of them.
Kasumi doesn't know what love is and she doesn't have any feeling of romance. Due to her sister's marriage, her mother arranged a formal marriage arrangement without her permission. At the meeting, she met a man who is just seeking friend.
A cellist is murdered during a symphony concert. Shortly afterwards, the manager of the hall is found dead, an apparent suicide. But is it?
David Cardew, a talented sculptor, lives an idyllic life in the English countryside with his wife, Laura, and their two children. But his happiness spoils as he becomes increasingly fixated on the idea that Laura is having an affair with a young cellist, Anton Falk. The three attend a fête where David watches Anton and Laura during a ballet about brutal and violent revenge - and his obsession begins to take an even darker turn....
An ambitious young woman auditions for a prestigious orchestra where she competes for a spot against a young man she's in love with.
Relationships, rehearsals, performances, hobbies, and family life of the members of the Guarneri String Quartet.
The Royal Ballet presents the world premiere of Cathy Marston's first work for the Company on the Main Stage alongside a revival of Jerome Robbins’s timeless classic of pure dance. The Cellist is a one-act ballet about British cellist Jacqueline du Pré, from her discovery of the cello through her celebrity as one of the most extraordinary players of the instrument to her frustration and struggle with multiple sclerosis. Jerome Robbins's Dances at a Gathering is a fluid exercise in pure dance for five couples, set to piano music by Fryderyk Chopin.
Ostensibly a portrait of a place where the artist had resided until recently, the new film by Robert Beavers conjures not only the memory but also the physical presence of those who have previously stayed there. Adhering to a solitary intimacy while simultaneously acting as an ode to human endeavour and shared impulses toward fulfillment through art, Listening to the Space in my Room is a moving testament to existence (whose traces are found in literature, music, filmmaking, gardening) and our endless search for meaning and authenticity. The film's precise yet enigmatic sound-image construction carries a rare emotional weight.
This a story of a violinist, pianist and cellist as they perform from place-to-place, under very unusual conditions. Every time they play, they remind someone of a lost love, so they are hired immediately hired by nightclub owners, ship captains and even a pirate... wherever circumstances take them.