The story begins with a series of mysterious events awaiting Anna Rudolph and Niccolo Bossotti, a violinist, and his wife Anna Rodolvi. Anna asks her servant Siska to predict the vision of her unborn child. But it provides a reading of Anna's future using tarot cards. The first, the moon, indicates that Anna will live a long life. In the meantime, Nikolo created a new violin. He is about to color them when she discovers that she and the child have died. Nicol 'returns to his shop and prints the violin in red. The violin then makes its way to an orphanage in Austria.
François Girard ... with co-writer Don McKellar and an able cast, has spun a yarn that crosses all manner of boundaries: geographic, artistic, and taste.
Derided by some contrarian critics for being "safe", this is an ambitious and at times uneven epic that stretches several continents and centuries . . .
Like the immaculate instrument it follows, "The Red Violin" is a piece of filmmaking fully refined by the hands of someone who believed in the material, and the effect it leaves us with is one of transcendence.
