Amiable banalities about the forces interfering with the creation of true art -- egos, libidos, politics, unions -- on a Parisian opera company's production of Tannhauser. Niels Arestrup, a facial composite of Jon Voight, Nicol Williamson, and Bruno Ganz, is the "dedicated" Hungarian conductor, and Glenn Close (singing voice of Kiri Te Kanawa) the American prima donna who begins to absorb his, and the movie's, time. Istvan Szabo's grim visuals take matters a little seriously. With Johanna Ter Steege and Erland Josephson. (1991) — Duncan Shepherd
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