IL BOEMO COSTUME DRAMA
18TH CENTURY SET BIOPIC
After playing in Czech cinemas, doing a round at movie festivals and then scoring six Lion Awards, the Czech Academy Awards (including Best Picture
and Best Director) historical drama IL BOEMO, directed by Petr Václav about 18th century Czech composer Josef Mysliveček, is now, if I am not mistaken, available for the viewers around the world for streaming over at Netflix!
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| Il Boemo is streaming on Netflix |
STORY IS SET IN 1764.
In a libertine Venice, the musician and composer Josef
Myslivecek (Voyteh Dyk), nicknamed "Il Boemo", does not manage to break through
despite his talent. His affair with a woman from the court allows him to
achieve his dream and compose an opera. From then on his fame grew, but
how far would he go? The life, work and escapades of a forgotten genius
composer whom the young Mozart admired.
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| The movie was directed by Petr Vaclav |
As critic Srikanth Srinivasan says, luxuriant biopic of the eighteenth-century composer Josef Mysliveček, Petr Václav’s IL BOEMO chronicles the Czech musician’s travails and triumphs as an outsider attempting to make it as an opera composer in cut-throat, cosmopolitan Italy. Mysliveček is a man of talent, but also of magnetic charm, who multiplies his sexual conquests as he progresses from court to court, all the while trying to
keep his head above water.
Exquisitely shot in warm tones, Václav’s film takes place in a number of Italian cities, but it refuses to offer us touristic images or indulge in baroque displays of period details. We are instead immersed in
elaborate indoor scenes rich in atmosphere and human interaction – such as the tense, dazzlingly edited premiere of Myslivecek’s opera in Naples – that allow actors the room to breathe and perfect their performances.
Centring on
two eventful decades in the composer’s time in Italy, IL BOEMO depicts the earnest efforts of a gifted artist to actualise himself despite compromises and creeping poverty. That Mysliveček’s life coincided with the epochal
appearance of Mozart gives his story a tragic dimension. With wisdom and tenderness, the film evokes how history passed by Mysliveček even as he was trying to find a place in it.
keep his head above water.
Exquisitely shot in warm tones, Václav’s film takes place in a number of Italian cities, but it refuses to offer us touristic images or indulge in baroque displays of period details. We are instead immersed in
elaborate indoor scenes rich in atmosphere and human interaction – such as the tense, dazzlingly edited premiere of Myslivecek’s opera in Naples – that allow actors the room to breathe and perfect their performances.
Centring on
two eventful decades in the composer’s time in Italy, IL BOEMO depicts the earnest efforts of a gifted artist to actualise himself despite compromises and creeping poverty. That Mysliveček’s life coincided with the epochal
appearance of Mozart gives his story a tragic dimension. With wisdom and tenderness, the film evokes how history passed by Mysliveček even as he was trying to find a place in it.
Good to know that it will be available at Netflix.
ReplyDeleteIt already is, methinks.
DeleteIt's not in the American, but they have a label that says "we don't have Il Boemo, but these are similar"
ReplyDeleteMaybe it is just in Europe, or maybe it was on and was taken down in the recent purge.
DeleteWell, shoot. I was getting ready to open Netflix and add this to my queue but then read Malena’s comment. Maybe they’ll eventually put it on there.
ReplyDeleteI read somewhere that it is on Netflix, maybe not in USA.
DeleteI did end up looking myself and it is not on USA Netflix. I do hope they eventually get it on there.
DeleteAs Malena says below, they've been cleaning up their stacks for financial reasons and it probably got removed from their lists.
DeleteI think it was, Theresa, because it appears in the list of movies that they no longer carry, right below Bohemian Rhapsody. It goes to show how fast Netflix empties its library
ReplyDeleteYes, we talked about many other streamers and channels cleaning up their stock for money reasons.
DeleteIt would be nice if they'd knock it off. They keep the crap movies up there for months and months, but blink your eyes and the good ones are gone :(
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