Admittedly, this movie (that closed the Cannes festival this week) looks a tad predictable and tedious and I'm not terribly impressed with Mad Mikkelsen's Stravinsky from the little you see of him in this trailer. Regardless, I can't wait to see it, if only for the first 30 seconds of the preview. After that, meh...
The 1913 premier of Le Sacre du Printemps is one of the most famously dramatic artistic events in history and is a great setting for the beginning of a film.
"We warred over art," wrote the New York Press critic, Carl Van Vechten in his account of the evening.
Interestingly, in Rites of Spring, Modris Eksteins suggests that while there was certainly an uprising of sorts, the audience's response may not have been as impassioned as is often suggested. In fact, he points out that several "first hand accounts" are likely fabricated. "Some people," Eksteins points out, "like Gertrude Stein, so captivated, even if in restrospect, by this early twentieth-century "happening," have implied that they were present when they clearly were not. Can one blame them? To have been in the audience that evening was to have participated not simply at another exhibition but in the very creation of modern art, in that the response of the audeince was and is as important to the meaning of this art as the intentions of those who introduced it."
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