Vitus (2006)
53KVitus (2006). 2h 3m | PG
“We just saw Vitus at the San Francisco International Film Festival, with an audience that packed in the theatre and gave the director a round of applause at the end. In the context of Fredi Mureru0026#39;s career, this film address themes that he explored in earlier works such as Alpine Fire and Full Moon, but here with a lighter, less moralistic tone. Murer clearly has a great rapport with children and brings out a credible performance from the nonprofessional actor (but real-life musical virtuoso) Teo Gheorghiu — especially considering that so much of the film rests on this young pianistu0026#39;s shoulders. Bruno Ganz, whom English-speaking audiences rarely get to hear performing in his own Zurich dialect, unsentimentally embodies the traditional Swiss values that are disappearing under a wave of American-style materialism and yuppie anxiety.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eParents, take your young geniuses to see this film, and take its humane message of love, self-recognition and forgiveness to heart.”
