This romanticized story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt (played by the ever underrated Dirk Bogarde), whose scandalous love affairs are given the Hollywood treatment, plays fast and loose with historical fact. The film is beautiful to look at and most important for its Oscar-winning musical score, which delivers the goods---not just the music of Liszt but of his contemporaries such as Chopin. Favorite line: When Liszt is told to be careful with the Russians, who defeated even the great Napoleon, he replies, "But Napoleon didn't play the piano."
Review of Song Without End
