An award winning film full of baroque splendour. The talented composer Antonio Salieri found himself in competition with Mozart, a genius, and he couldn't understand why God favored such a vulgar creature to be his instrument. Salieri turned into a hate-filled monster, whose aim in life became to ruin his colleague, but he emerges as a tragic and sympathetic character. He alone could appreciate the perfection of Mozart's music and, perhaps, he speaks up for all of us whose talents fall short of
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WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939) (1939)
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Melodrama as high art: some of the critics reckoned it was better than the original book! It's certainly more gothic and the passions are more torrid. Ms Bronte might not have approved, but this is a powerful little number. Heathcliffe and Cathy get on down........
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