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Love & Justice Reviews

  • "Unique and beautiful piece! I think Beethoven would have appreciated what you did, which is to bring the eternal part of his work into the present. Bravo!"

    Jan Swafford, Author of “Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph”

  • "A very moving film. What a journey. And thank you for remembering our tragedy and our struggles."

    -Ariel Dorfman, Author ‘Death and the Maiden’

  • “Love & Justice combines the musical style with the cinematographic language of the great masters. The camera handling of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, the box of surprises of Citizen Kane, the ambivalence of fiction and reality of François Truffaut’s The American, but also the narrative and scenic skill of Peter Greenaway.”

    José Blanco Jiménez , Film Critic, Chile

  • "Intimate, moving—often painfully so. A lovely film."

    – Marina Chicurel

  • "A masterpiece - Love & Justice is thoughtful, beautiful and very important."

    — Joan Rutkowski

  • "Poignant, mysterious, risky, and brilliant."

    — Ben Lamarca

  • "Love & Justice proves that classical music can inspire and educate anyone. It’s not meant to be a rarified experience. Love and Justice is a moving film, with grand artistry on display."

    – Jill Brooke, Telluride Daily Planet

Following the Ninth Reviews

  • "The film is beautiful and powerful…If millions could experience its affirming and incandescent message, we might turn around the destructive dynamics that are overwhelming the earth.”

    – Bill Moyers

  • “A majestic documentary … Each anecdote builds upon the next to create that rarest of films: a documentary as ineffable and transformative as it sets out to be.”

    – The Village Voice

  • "Thrilling, smartly assembled and gracefully paced"

    – The New York Times

  • "In addition to accomplishing the important task of bringing inspirational stories to light, Following the Ninth succeeds on another level, that of brilliant filmmaking."

    – Santa Barbara Independent

  • “This illuminating documentary will enable you to appreciate it from not just a musical, but also historical perspective. You’ll never hear it the same way again.”

    – Whole Life Times

  • “The reach of Beethoven’s final great work extends way beyond the concert hall, as this stirring documentary attests.”

    — Film Journal

  • “Following the Ninth is a deeply moving, and inspiring achievement. It has always amazed me how suddenly and vividly a piece of music can overwhelm one with epiphanies, insights and inspirations, and Candaele’s beautifully composed film affects one in much the same way.”

    – Daniel Stewart, Music Director, Santa Cruz County Symphony

  • “Following the Ninth is an inspiring film showing the power that music can bring to people; not only experientially, but intellectually, emotionally, and socially. The film is a celebration of a composer and his art; but it also a celebration of the free will of the people. The symphony allows that free will to be expressed even in the face of repression–the music plays on, and so shall our freedom, our togetherness, and our Joy.”

    – Jennifer Weinstein, Executive Director, Southern Vermont Arts Center