From Bono to Domingo, the stars line up to sing the praises of their late friend in Ron Howard’s heart-sinking documentary
Bland, incurious and passionless, this documentary about the great tenor Luciano Pavarotti is like a promotional video licensed by a team of copyright lawyers – and about as challenging as a Three Tenors gig at Wembley stadium. Pavarotti’s glorious voice all but drowns in a 114-minute montage of obsequious syrup.
Director Ron Howard certainly has an important lineup of interviewees: co-tenors José Carreras and Plácido Domingo, first wife Adua Veroni, second wife Nicoletta Mantovani, assistant, student and former lover Madelyn Renee – and also his New York manager Herbert Breslin and London promoter Harvey Goldsmith. Everyone is on their best behaviour, no one speaking out of turn about the great man or each other. Weirdly, the most interesting interview moments come in old archive footage of Pavarotti speaking to Clive James and Russell Harty.
Bland, incurious and passionless, this documentary about the great tenor Luciano Pavarotti is like a promotional video licensed by a team of copyright lawyers – and about as challenging as a Three Tenors gig at Wembley stadium. Pavarotti’s glorious voice all but drowns in a 114-minute montage of obsequious syrup.
Director Ron Howard certainly has an important lineup of interviewees: co-tenors José Carreras and Plácido Domingo, first wife Adua Veroni, second wife Nicoletta Mantovani, assistant, student and former lover Madelyn Renee – and also his New York manager Herbert Breslin and London promoter Harvey Goldsmith. Everyone is on their best behaviour, no one speaking out of turn about the great man or each other. Weirdly, the most interesting interview moments come in old archive footage of Pavarotti speaking to Clive James and Russell Harty.
- 7/12/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The Front Row, Kncc release follows the lifting of Saudi Arabia’s 30-year cinema ban at the end of 2017.
Ron Howard’s Pavarotti, exploring the life and work of Italian opera legend Luciano Pavarotti, is set to become the first major documentary to be given a wide theatrical release in Saudi Arabia following the lifting of its 30-year-cinema ban at the end of 2017.
Dubai-based distributor Front Row Filmed Entertainment and partner company Kuwait National Cinema Company, which own all Mena rights for the work, have announced the documentary will open on July 25 in Saudi Arabia in Vox Cinemas and AMC Cinemas.
Ron Howard’s Pavarotti, exploring the life and work of Italian opera legend Luciano Pavarotti, is set to become the first major documentary to be given a wide theatrical release in Saudi Arabia following the lifting of its 30-year-cinema ban at the end of 2017.
Dubai-based distributor Front Row Filmed Entertainment and partner company Kuwait National Cinema Company, which own all Mena rights for the work, have announced the documentary will open on July 25 in Saudi Arabia in Vox Cinemas and AMC Cinemas.
- 6/26/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Pavarotti performs at the People’s Assembly in Peking, China. Photo by Vittoriano Rastelli/Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images.
In Pavarotti, director Ron Howard spotlights opera superstar Luciano Pavarotti, the most famous tenor of the past 50 years, so famous that even people who had never heard an opera knew his name.
Even if you don’t know anything about opera, you have probably heard of the Three Tenors – Luciano Pavarotti, Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo. If you are an opera fan, you know Pavarotti as one the great voices, the best tenor of the second half the last century and beginning of this one. Ron Howard’s affectionate but honest documentary has something for both of those audiences.
Pavarotti was a rock star of an opera star, a pop culture celebrity whose fame reached beyond the rarefied world of opera, something that didn’t always please opera fans. Pavarotti not...
In Pavarotti, director Ron Howard spotlights opera superstar Luciano Pavarotti, the most famous tenor of the past 50 years, so famous that even people who had never heard an opera knew his name.
Even if you don’t know anything about opera, you have probably heard of the Three Tenors – Luciano Pavarotti, Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo. If you are an opera fan, you know Pavarotti as one the great voices, the best tenor of the second half the last century and beginning of this one. Ron Howard’s affectionate but honest documentary has something for both of those audiences.
Pavarotti was a rock star of an opera star, a pop culture celebrity whose fame reached beyond the rarefied world of opera, something that didn’t always please opera fans. Pavarotti not...
- 6/21/2019
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
‘I had no idea how charismatic he was.’
HanWay Films is understood to have closed two major deals on its Luciano Pavarotti documentary, which Ron Howard trumpeted to Afm buyers at a sizzle reel presentation at Shutters on the Beach on Saturday [3].
“I had no idea how charismatic he was,” Howard said of the late Italian tenor, whom he had admired from afar despite not being an opera aficionado prior to embarking on his third documentary.
Now in the final stages of a project that started two years ago and is expected to be ready by the first quarter of 2019, Howard told Screendaily,...
HanWay Films is understood to have closed two major deals on its Luciano Pavarotti documentary, which Ron Howard trumpeted to Afm buyers at a sizzle reel presentation at Shutters on the Beach on Saturday [3].
“I had no idea how charismatic he was,” Howard said of the late Italian tenor, whom he had admired from afar despite not being an opera aficionado prior to embarking on his third documentary.
Now in the final stages of a project that started two years ago and is expected to be ready by the first quarter of 2019, Howard told Screendaily,...
- 11/3/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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