{"id":27469,"date":"2018-01-30T17:38:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T22:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=27469"},"modified":"2018-01-30T17:39:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T22:39:14","slug":"the-music-of-silence-la-musica-del-silenzio-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/30\/the-music-of-silence-la-musica-del-silenzio-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The Music of Silence (La musica del silenzio) (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A young Amos is losing his sight, as he becomes blind and discovers his voice, he has to surpass obstacle after obstacle to reach his goal of singing professionally on the international stage.\u00a0 Through this biography, the life and start of the career of Andrea Bocelli are explored in a way that sheds light on his difficulties and triumphs.<\/p>\n

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Written by Anna Pavignano and Michael Radford with the latter directing as well, The Music of Silence is a mellow feeling musical biography.\u00a0 It does tell the story of Bocelli growing up with his family and how he became blind while also finding his love for music and singing.\u00a0 However, the film does this without much fanfare or glitter, letting his life story talk for itself.\u00a0 Unfortunately, while the characters are well-built, well-written, and well-acted, the story feels slow and like it\u2019s missing in excitement.\u00a0 The story is mostly interesting but the film focuses a lot of the facts and some of the feelings had by the characters.\u00a0 However, the feelings are not explored as deeply as this story needs.\u00a0 The film feels like it\u2019s just skimming the surface of that the characters are feeling and that is to its detriment.\u00a0 The story doesn\u2019t have a lot of excitement, things do happen, but his life is not that of someone with tons of events and twists and turns.\u00a0 Yes, Bocelli is blind, but once that is established and how it happened is over, it\u2019s all about him wanting to be a singer and what else he does on his way there, but the way there is not particularly fascinating, or at least it\u2019s not shown that way.<\/p>\n

The cast for The Music of Silence is quite talented with the best performances coming from Toby Sebastian as Amos (Bocelli) as a teen and adult and a surprising Antonia Banderas as Maestro, the man who trained the singing to understand his voice and use it as he now does.\u00a0 Banderas plays a man who has much knowledge and he plays the part subtly and with just the right nuances as a man who is was a strong influence on Bocelli.\u00a0 His acting steals the scenes he is in, giving him all rights to his top billing even though he doesn\u2019t have the most screen time or the most lines.\u00a0 His performance is definitely the best of the film.\u00a0 The rest of the cast is also good, but this is seriously Banderas\u2019 movie even though he is far from the lead.<\/p>\n

The film\u2019s cinematography by Stefano Falivene is worth nothing as it is looks beautiful no matter where the story takes the characters, from the family house where the lead is born to the school for the blind to the stage in a nightclub to ultimately a major international stage.\u00a0 The images look fantastic and are carefully shot, giving the film a look that goes with the best of biographies.<\/p>\n

The Sound of Silence is a stunning film visually about a singer with a fantastic voice, but the story is not all that exciting.\u00a0 Yes, the singer was born with health issues, lost his sight, but he did not have a particularly eventful life leading to fame.\u00a0 This film shows that he did go over some hurdles and made it to his goal, so there is the fact that he never gave up and sought his dream no matter what, but the film is done in a manner that is not particularly exciting.\u00a0 The performances do sell the film well along with the images and the music, but this is a film that will be better loved by big fans of Bocelli\u2019s more than simply fans of music in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A young Amos is losing his sight, as he becomes blind and discovers his voice, he has to surpass obstacle after obstacle to reach his goal of singing professionally on the international stage.\u00a0 Through this biography, the life and start of the career of Andrea Bocelli are explored in a way that sheds light on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,302,367,698],"class_list":["post-27469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-biography","tag-drama","tag-foreign","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27471,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27469\/revisions\/27471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}