Rhythm Is It!

[legoline]

The first time I saw this film was around christmas, I think. I was zapping through the channels when I suddenly stumbled across it, and I watched the whole thing through. Today I zapped into it again - just to find it as stunning and moving as the first time I saw it. I just found out there's a DVD out, I'm gonna need this real soon. Really soon.

It's not actually a film per sé - it's more of a documentary. In 2003, 250 children in Berlin learned and performed a choreography to Stravinsky's "La Sacre du Printemps" ("The Rite of Spring" I think in English). Some or most of the children were picked from a Berlin school in a "poorer" quarter, I think, who were facing unemployement and no future. Most of them had never really been "exposed" to classical music before. So, over the course of three months they learned that choreography, and the end result was fantastic. Really.

Have a trailer:
(The German kids are basically either saying that they don't want to be a part of this or that they're excited...)

And I really want the recording of La Sacre du Printemps now, too. Fantastic music.

Comments

[cerri44.livejournal.com]

moach wie geil, ich hab schon vom trailer ne gänsehaut bekommen... hach gute dokus sind doch immer wieder das beste...

[legoline.livejournal.com]

Stimmt. Und die hier ist wirklich großartig, ich überlege echt, mir die zu kaufen und das passiert mir sonst mit Dokus selten :-)

[cerri44.livejournal.com]

wenn du's kaufst, lass mal filmabend bei elli machen;)

[legoline.livejournal.com]

Interessiert Elli so was denn? :-)

[cerri44.livejournal.com]

elli tanzt gerne, und hat früher mal jazzdance gemacht - die guckt alles was mit tanzen zutun hat;)

[legoline.livejournal.com]

Oh, prima. Wenn ichs mir irgendwann zulege, sag ich Bescheid :-)

[cerri44.livejournal.com]

yay:)

[legoline.livejournal.com]

:-)

[unhobbityhobbit.livejournal.com]

For some reason I read "The Rite of Spring" and thought "Danse Macabre". But then Danse Macabre isn't in Fantasia (yes, that is one of the ways I keep classical music straight in my head).

Also, "Ein Wunderbarer Film"? That's the kind of German I speak!

[legoline.livejournal.com]

Oooooooooooooh I SO need to rewatch "Fantasia". Is "Rite Of Spring" in Fantasia? It seemed to familiar...

Also, "Ein Wunderbarer Film"? That's the kind of German I speak!

Yay!!! .-p

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bookchick/]

Oh ja, davon hab ich auch gehört damals (waren die nicht auch bei Wetten Dass zu Besuch?). Leider nicht gesehen, aber Simon Rattle mag ich eh total gerne, dann werd ich mir das wohl auch kaufen, wenn ich wieder Geld über habe. :-)

[legoline.livejournal.com]

Keine Ahnung, ich guck kein Wetten Dass... .-) Ich ärgere mich nur gerade, dass ich das im Kino verpasst habe :-)

[morelindo.livejournal.com]

And I really want the recording of La Sacre du Printemps now, too.

Jaaa, Sacre du Printemps ist wirklich grandios. Soll ich's Dir brennen/perMegaUpload schicken, wenn ich diese Woche dazu komme?

[legoline.livejournal.com]

Hast du das etwa? Megaupload wär klasse! (Ja ich denk an Bad Company, echt. Ich muss dringend Rohlinge kaufen...)