Four Last Songs

Disclaimer: I know most of the people on whom the characters are (loosely) based, and the area of the production (the village of Deia on the island of Mallorca), and the house in which it's set. I even happened to meet... Full review

Actually, I really liked this movie. It was funny and sad and it kept me hooked right to the end. It made one wonder what if we were all put on an island and had to live close together with all... Full review

This film was a shot in the dark. I figured that with a cast like that (Tucci, Ifans, Malone et al.), how could it go wrong? Well, I'm not obsessive enough-or astute enough-to pick out where the problem lies, but after... Full review

FOUR LAST SONGS is one of those little films that quietly turns a little comedy about seemingly incongruous situations into a finely spun series of love stories: father and daughter, man and woman, disparate brothers, lonely widows, and a village that... Full review

What a splendid collage of music and life. trouble souls, complicated friendships.. This was not ''American Beauty'' of ''Taxi Driver'' but a nice fussy BBC snapshot into life abroad...I'm not a film director or art critic..just a consumer of film. I... Full review

Without a doubt one of the best and most refreshing films we have seen in a very long time. Definitely fun and very funny Four Last Songs is a work of real love. I have no truck with one of the... Full review

I have to disagree with the previous reviewer stating the this movie was poorly cast,directed etc.I am not a movie critic,just a member of the British public who loves movies. I thought this quirky British comedy drama was wonderful.Excellent acting particularly... Full review

This film is poorly cast, directed even worse and you would do well to spend your money sitting in the lobby eating popcorn. It should be a romantic farce. Instead attempts to make it sincere, deep and touching are misguided, poorly... Full review

For Christine Brewer, there's something deeply personal about Richard Strauss' "Four Last Songs.""My first encounter with the songs came when I was about 19 years old," said the Grammy Award-winning American soprano. ... Full Article

The giant roller coaster of the Proms tends to put the country's other summer music festivals in the shade. This is a shame because several of them offer distinctive programmes in characterful places, none more so than the Three Choirs... ... Full Article

What is it, I wonder, as the summer solstice approaches, that makes a great love song? The question arose as I watched extracts from the BBC's ever-admirable Cardiff Singer of the World final last weekend. ... Full Article

If your guest of honour decides not to show up, the host had better pull something fine from their sleeve. Fortunately, there is a lot more to this week's Toronto Symphony Orchestra program than promised soloist, soprano Measha Brueggergosman. ... Full Article

It gives a strange appearance to Renee Fleming's CV that she first came to La traviata when already deep into her forties. Though comfortably the most beloved of America's lyric sopranos, who recently sang for President Obama alongside Bruce Springsteen... ... Full Article

Bela Bartok completed his Concerto for Orchestra in 1943, two years before his death. Richard Strauss finished his "Four Last Songs," the last music he would write, in 1949. ... Full Article