The Concert (1954)
Celebrating the end of World War II and liberation of their city, a group of students is set on holding a cultural evening. They invite Ema, a reclusive piano teacher from the same building, to play for them. Ema declines, but starts reminscing back on her own life and the historical events that have seemingly overshadowed it.
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It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Nada Skrinjar is my mother's first cousin and it was in researching my family roots that I discovered her IMDb page. I found this film online and watched it several times. It reminds me of "The Red Violin" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120802/ in that it centers around an instrument and its effect on different people who owned and played it. I do not understand Croatian, but the drama transcended language and I was touched by its tragic love story.