The movie is The Best for my opinion,because this movie is a tribute to Beethoven,The soundtrack is pretty!

Severely underrated! This is one of those movies that is unforgettable for its passion and soul, even if it doesn't always work. Some of the dialogue and acting is a bit stilted (though that's not true of Rossellini, Oldman, or Ter Steege, who are all great). But I'll take this any time over the more pretentious and less entertaining "Amadeus" (the obvious comparison from around the same time). I rewatched it after years last night, fell in love with it again, and appreciated more than ever how well it seems to capture Beethoven's personality, his follies and tragedies, and the innovative nature of his music. The "Ode to Joy" sequence might be the most moving filmic depiction of someone transcending suffering through art that I've ever seen. And the tragic love story is really gripping, even if there seems to be little basis in fact. You want these people to be happy, but fate has other ideas. Bernard Rose put his heart and soul into the direction, Oldman is magnificent, and the great Johanna Ter Steege is almost unbearably touching in her pride, strength, and ultimate compassion. This is just a wonderful imagining of the artist's life, very sad but also really inspiring and entertaining.

Rose's imagery is really hit or miss here (often it is silly but a few times it is truly gorgeous) but I think ultimately I appreciated the attempt to visualize the music of Beethoven and connect it with specific emotions.

Man search for the meaning of Rosebud. (Something like that, pretty sure.) Worth a look, listen. Blobbo enjoy.

This film should really be titled Beethoven's Girlfriends. Despite Gary Oldman's earnest efforts, we really learn very little about Beethoven the man and composer, for he is treated like a side character to the succession of women he presumably loved. The final 'solution' of who his 'Immortal Beloved' was is very bogus. Yet another of a long succession of terrible presentations of famous creative people done by very uncreative schmucks.

Well were was the music Beethoven created why was it was so important to show us who was his beloved we didn't ask for it we wanted to know his childhood , how he became a Legend after Mozart not rubbish affairs which were not even accurate please don't do this with anyone else

Really enjoyed it. Gary Oldham owned the role, as usual. Really made you feel what Beethoven was going through with his loss of hearing and all of his personal struggles.

I'm a fan of all things Beethoven so it earns my recommendation. I wish it would have concentrated more on the trajectory of his life: the gradual loss of his hearing seems tailor-made for drama. Instead it concentrates on his relationships. If you aren't a fan of the music or interested on the man you should probably pass on this one.

The topic of this film is Beethoven of course, but it's not entirely driven by him, more like a fantasy. Need more respect and love for music. He is too great to feature in a film, I think. I wonder if the casting was right. Production value is high. The score is absolutely great all from his works.

Really enjoyed this movie, it's going on on my favorite movie list! After watching I actually had a great interest in the life of Beethoven and the truth behind the story line. Gary Oldman absolutely fantastic as usual!

When composer Ludwig van Beethoven passes away his friend sets out to settle his affairs and goes on a quest to find Beethoven's ‘immortal beloved' Gary Oldman plays Beethoven extremely well. He even looks the part. Other than his music I've had no idea about his life so this was interesting to me. Not sure if any of it is historically accurate or just all fiction, but either way it's a pretty engaging watch.

Rose's imagery is really hit or miss here (often it is silly but a few times it is truly gorgeous) but I think ultimately I appreciated the attempt to visualize the music of Beethoven and connect it with specific emotions.

"Immortal Beloved" has a fair share of beautiful scenery and lavish costumes of the early 19th century. Though this is a nice feature about the movie, it falls into many flaws that make this movie very syrupy and rather overblown. Gary Oldman makes a very convincing and passionate (but not overdone) performance of the great Ludwig van Beethoven. While it is listed under the genre biography, it seems very far from that. The story of Beethoven is fictionalized to fault, which proves that this is by no means a reliable source of information about Beethoven (which it clearly is not supposed to be). There also seems to be a strange combination of sugary romance mixed in rather poorly with the dead seriousness of Beethoven. Another potential fault is that there seems to be a much greater focus on who the "Immortal Beloved" was and his romantic experiences, rather than the important moments of his life which one would think would be the main type of content in this. I understand that the title is "Immortal Beloved" and that that is a very important part of it, but focusing on the sad and furious life of Beethoven poorly matches up with the overly thick and shmaltzy sentimentality when it comes to the romantic side of Beethoven. The movie would have been greatly improved if it were not for the sugary romance. While I am not a big fan of this movie, I do have to say that it has plenty of beautiful scenery, good acting, and wonderful music from Beethoven. I don't hate this movie, in fact, it is rather fun to watch, but when it boils down to it, it isn't much more than a sappy melodrama. God bless all whoever read this and bye!

Another fantastic performance by Gary Oldman.

Our piano teacher named Elise would hide as a child when "Fur Elise" was played since it scared her so much. I had a similar reaction to Beethoven, as my Baptist church organist Grandfather had all the great composers pictures hanging on the wall leading down to his serial killer-looking basement, and Beethoven by far was the scariest. I could get past the stair of Chopin, then Bach, even Mozart, but once Beethoven was looking at me I'd scramble back upstairs. This is a great film that plays up the romanticism of Beethoven more than his music, creating a love-mystery myth-behind what the man did artistically; sculpt vibrations he couldn't really hear. Gary Oldman is much less scary than the image of Beethoven my Grandfather possessed, and hopefully won't trigger any harmful memories of "Fur Elise", but one can never be too sure with Beethoven. Even when we were kids they used to teach us those old answering machine gags to learn "Beethoven's 5th" as we'd darkly sing to its famous melody "Nobody's Home! Nobody's Home!"...

If you love a classical music, Amadeus & Immortal Beloved are a "must to see"! movies...

Oldmen is fantastic as is the story, and I simply loved it.

I thought it was so good, that I started researching Louis's biography.

The biography is not at the level of the musical geniality of Beethoven.

In the way that Beethoven himself bridged the classical and romantic periods, the film wants to be a mixture of CITIZEN KANE and AMADEUS, retelling a monumental life through melancholic flashbacks and the mystery of an empty signifier. The idea is a worthwhile one, if much too conventional for its utterly original and avant-garde subject matter-something the movie sorely misunderstands, giving little weight to the specificity of the composer's genius, tone-deafly treating him merely like a lightening rod for romantic passion-but the execution here is as flat as a second-rate soprano, lacking in the verve or audacity of its models, substituting pathos for authentic artistry. Anton Schindler (played by Jeroen Krabbé), the film's framing narrator, is too blank to serve as a Salieri, and Beethoven's string of mistresses too sycophantic to provide the complexity of Kane's memorializers-the result, ironically enough, is rather monotone and cold.