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“Gripping!” – The Times

“Outstanding!” – Chicago Sun Times

“A masterpiece!” – Sydney Morning Herald

“A directional coup – inventively filmed and cooly perceptive” – New Zealand Herald

“An indelible portrait offering a rich and personal insight into Chopin the man and his music” – Urbancinefile

Acclaimed director Phil Grabsky brings the life and music of Fryderyk Chopin – one of the greatest composers of all time – to Rialto Cinemas.

His grave in Paris remains a place of pilgrimage and his music continues to sell out concert halls worldwide – but who exactly was this man who was terrified of public performance, who fled his Polish homeland for Paris never to return, took up with the most notorious transvestite in France, rarely gave public performances and, despite a life of ill-health, wrote some of the deepest and most powerful music ever written? How exactly did a young Polish boy rise to such heady heights?

For four years, award-winning Phil Grabsky travelled the globe in his quest to lay bare the life and music of Chopin. Some of the world’s best musicians provide the music, including Leif Ove Andsnes, Daniel Barenboim, Ronald Brautigam and the Orchestra of the 18th Century.

Funny, heart-breaking, inspirational – this film has been called the first to really illustrate the true nature of this remarkable and still widely-loved composer.