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A triumphant exploration of the life and art of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (played by Tom Hulce), Miloš Forman’s Amadeus is an expressively bold study of musical genius. Told through flashbacks, detailed in a confession in a mental asylum by Mozart’s peer and secret rival, Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), the film charts Mozart’s unrivalled artistry, idiosyncratic personality and unprecedented rise to fame. Though the antagonism between Salieri and Mozart is fictionalised, their creator-observer dynamic paints Mozart’s character of being both other-worldly and talented to a God-like degree, reinforced by Mozart’s celestial compositions and louche lifestyle. Like the dramatic nature of opera, Amadeus adopts a larger-than-life storytelling technique which garnered the film eight Academy Awards, notably Best Picture, and has produced this remarkable portrait of an artist whose transcendent works have taken on an almost mythological mystique. TM

PG | Adult themes, Low level coarse language