Ebert:
There is an image in "Immortal Beloved" as evocative as any I can remember. Movies that attempt to match visual images to great music are often asking for trouble, but what Bernard Rose has accomplished in "Immortal Beloved" is a film that imagines the mental states of Beethoven with a series of images as vivid and convincing as a dream.
The film unfolds like a biographical puzzle. Beethoven after his death left a letter addressed to his "immortal beloved," with no hint as to who that person was. As a last testament this document may have been faulty, but as a biographical puzzle it was a masterstroke, inspiring two centuries of fevered speculations, of which this film is the latest and most romantic... Rose has created a fantasy about Beethoven that evokes the same disturbing, ecstatic passion we hear in his music.
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