A Snapshot of Forever

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A sweet and gentle film, visually gorgeous settings, locations, interiors and clothes. But a warning on the music: viewers will hear and see the famous and much-loved minuet from Boccherini's string quintet (Opus 11 No.5), apparently miraculously performed by just four players instead of the necessary five, both at rehearsal and in performance. (This is the unspoken joke for the audience in the old movie The Ladykillers, where neither the incompetent criminals nor their adorable landlady realise that they are rehearsing a quintet upstairs having brought in only four instruments). Back to this movie: next, a second violin and a viola can also apparently share a desk and sheet-music, despite their music being written in different clefs. Thirdly, all of them - still only four players - can apparently read their string quintet music from a printed sheet of piano music. And at the end, I'm still left wondering where that second cello needed for the quintet has disappeared to... Apart from these hilarious musical howlers, it's a delightful film.