Absolutely the worst movie.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

First class cinematography, direction, music, main actor, costumes, set design. There are a few small thing in the story that could have been corrected, nothing too important, but just to make some points more convincing.

a portrait of Beethoven. a not ordinary one. because, at the first sigh, it is a sketch. in fact, it has the virtue to become, scene by scene, a confession. not exact about the life of a great composer but about his forms of solitude, vulnerability, generosity and fears. and, a good part of the fascination about the looking for the mysterious woman, who was the choice of Beethoven, has as root the beautiful performance of Gary Oldman. not surprising, sure. but convincing at whole. for small gestures and for the dialogues. for a Beethoven who escapes from the circle of legend. for a sort of romanticism who seems be so realistic than has the status of history lesson. because , in fact, Immortal Beloved is only the story of a man. and his right to happiness.

After the death of Ludwig van Beethoven (Gary Oldman) in 1827, Schindler (Jeroen Krabbé) is tasked with dealing with his last will and testament. He leaves his estate to his "immortal beloved". Schindler sets off to find whoever this immortal beloved may be. He interviews Beethoven's love Giulietta Guicciardi (Valeria Golino), Anna-Marie Erdödy (Isabella Rossellini) as well as others. Johanna Reiss (Johanna ter Steege) is also his lover but she marries his brother Kaspar instead. She has Karl van Beethoven assumed to be Ludwig's son.Oldman is terrific in this luscious costume drama. Beethoven is portrayed as an arrogant bastard which Oldman plays beautifully. However, the plot lacks a certain tension. It depends on how interested one is about finding the identity of this immortal beloved. It doesn't really interest me. There is no denying the ability of Oldman and the beauty in the movie. This doesn't have the clarity of a straight forward biopic or the energy of an exciting plot.

After Beethoven died, love letters he had written to his "Immortal Beloved" were discovered. The name of the Immortal Beloved was not included in the letters. That all makes sense.However, in this film what is found is not letters but a will - in which Beethoven leaves his estate to his Immortal Beloved, but does not tell anyone who she is. Does that make sense to anyone? If he really wanted to leave her his estate, wouldn't it have occurred to him that it maybe it might have been a good idea to identify her by name?Are we supposed to think we was an idiot? Are we, perhaps, supposed to think he wrote the will while suffering from dementia? I can't think of any other reason why he would make a bequest to someone he declined to identify.