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User Rating:
7.9/10   48 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Joanna Buggy (writer)
Tim Slade (writer)
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Tagline:
Four seasons. Four continents. Four groups of musicians. One timeless piece of music.
Plot:
Vivaldi's The Four Seasons and four outstanding violinists are the threads the filmmakers use to weave... more | add synopsis
Awards:
2 nominations more
User Comments:
4: they are jolly good musicians more (4 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Sayaka Shoji ... Herself - Spring
Niki Vasilakis ... Herself - Summer
Cho-Liang Lin ... Himself - Autumn
Pekka Kuusisto ... Himself - Winter
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Additional Details

Runtime:
88 min (original version)
Color:
Color (HDCAM)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Soundtrack:
The Four Seasons more

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4: they are jolly good musicians, 27 July 2007
9/10
Author: ptb-8 from Australia

Superlatives like 'breathtaking' or 'sublime' or even plain old 'wow' are the order of the month now that '4' is getting an August cinema release in Australia. This documentary feature is a 4 part journey of 4 seasons... Vivaldi's 4 Seasons to be musically exact... played by 4 different musicians; Spring is in Tokyo, Autumn is in Australia's Northern Territory, Spring is in New York (I like New York in Spring... how about you?) and finally in a 22 minute climax in Finland of unimaginable breathtaking and sublime visuals... a wow performance by a 20-something male violinist delivers Vivaldi's Winter suite completing the 4 seasons in a trip across the most incredible vistas on the planet. 4 is a music documentary masterpiece, a film deserving of an Academy award for feature or photography alone, a film designed to lift the spirit of the viewer through music and the achievement of young musicians... a cultural exchange with a music score so familiar it seems presented as though I had never heard it before. I do not know what happened to my head while I watched 4 but I need to see it 44 times just to cope with what I was seeing and hearing. This music film is a dream of the most desirable type. I found out later the photography was by Pieter DeVries who is an imax cinematographer. And the Oscar goes to....

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