The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)

IMDb plot summary: The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.
Directed by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub. Starring Gustav Leonhardt, Christiane Lang, Paolo Carlini, and Ernst Castelli.

This feels less like a film than just a Bach concert in period costume with occasional readings explaining pieces of Bach's life. I feel like that would be a more interesting way to see this as well, as perhaps it would allow for readers who had a bit more expression. I had to actually slow down the video and audio during the spoken portions because they are spoken so quickly and with so little inflection that I had a great deal of difficulty following along with them. The music of course was very nice, but I'm not at all well-versed in Bach and couldn't tell you if it was an especially good performance of any of these. Certainly an interesting format for a music history movie, but it didn't draw me in as much as I hoped it would.

How it entered my Flickchart:
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach < The Sandlot
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach > One 2 Ka 4
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach < Tulpan
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach > Goldfinger
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach > Tiramisu
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach < Steel Magnolias
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach < Four Weddings and a Funeral
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach < Lovelace
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach > Gozu
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach > Mission: Impossible
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach < The Core

Final spot: #2064 out of 3161.