CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH [DVD] PROTOTYPE is equal parts dense

PROTOTYPE is equal parts dense and fleet – an unprecedented experience with no clear ancestor or likely successor

One day he meets a financially strapped woman

Once upon a time

for the first time

and it’s here that Araby begins — or

CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH [DVD] PROTOTYPE is equal parts denseUsing correspondences and texts written by Johann Sebastian Bach, and read by his wife, Anna Magdalena, filmmakers Jean Marie Straub and Danile Huillet have crafted one of the most precise, rewarding biopics ever put to screen. Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bachs intense emotional pull can be understood by its status as a musical film in the most thorough sense: its performancesextended sequences set within the very spaces once occupied by Bach himself,