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Film · 1984 · Biographical drama
Amadeus
Directed by Milos Forman
1984
★ 7.8 editorial score
It sent a whole generation out to buy Mozart records: Salieri narrates his own jealousy from an asylum, and the music keeps making his case better than he can.
“The core of this extraordinary drama continues to be the paradox represented by Antonio Salieri who, as court composer to Joseph II, the Holy Roman Emperor, was Mozart's most ferocious adversary as well as the only person in Vienna to comprehend the magnificence of Mozart's gifts. It is through Mozart, Salieri says in his rage, that God had poured music that...is testimony that a divine spark can exist in mankind.”
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