The lives of 3 families through World War II and into the present directed by Claude LeLouch focusing on the art and world of music, the bond that ties them all together.
Bolero is an epic of middle brow mediocrity made by a director who always tended to be way to sentimental and romantic for his own good. The music is by those light weights of contemporary pop, Michel Legrand, Yanni, Marilyn and Alan Bergman and Francis Lai.
The film is frankly exhausting to watch after a while. The early scenes set during World War II are somewhat interesting but as the film moves into the 60's and 70's and the bad pop songs kick in it's finally an endurance contest to get through.
The final scene is set at a concert for staving children in front of the Eiffel Tower no less. It's an interpretative dance of that masterpiece of kistch Ravel's Bolero. This version has the addition of a vocal background, pretty awful but hilarious stuff.
Claude Lelouch is a director who never met a handheld camera or crane shot that he didn't like. The camera is constantly swinging around, circling the performers or racing backwards down some set.
An endurance contest of the highest order.
184 minutes.
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