The Malkovich Torment

www.alekseyigudesman.com
THE MALKOVICH TORMENT is the final piece of the project "The Music Critic" premiered at Julian Rachlin & Friends festival 2010. The text is a translation from an original critic about an appearance of John Malkovich in Istanbul. The music is composed by Aleksey Igudesman.
THE MUSIC CRITIC
Schumann fancies himself a "composer" while Brahms is a gift-less bastard and Debussy is simply ugly. Igudesman has created a sardonic melange of the most evil original music critiques of the last centuries many of them written about some of the greatest works of chamber music. Malkovich slips into the role of the evil music critic, who believes the music of Beethoven, Chopin, Ravel and the like to be weary and dreary, while Julian Rachlin and other great musicians beg to differ.
Music by Bach, Piazzolla, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Ravel, Kanchelli, Prokofiev, Schumann and Igudesman.
www.rachlinandfriends.com

[@Junius]

A beautiful to turn your critics words into your audience's joy. This is wonderful.

[@thelmalegazpitodd2324]

Gracias...mi actor favorito,el mejor... gracias!

[@evelenafickett8969]

God i love his voice!

[@igudesman]

@carpentun Well yes, disturbing it is, that we all sign. But it proves, in my humble opinion what a great actor Malkovich is, since he actually LOVES the review and finds it not just funny, but also well written. We rehearsed it with great spirit and no anger. John and all of us believe that everyone is entitled to their opinion. But you know what the beauty of art is? To one person its full of humour, to the other humourless, to one it has a nasty sub-text and to the other its peotry. Peace.

[@Boss351Mustang]

John is so funny! Thanks for uploading this!

[@igudesman]

@silverhorsegold The piece ar 5:12 is STILL "The Malkovich Torment" - so written by my humble selve, so thank you for the compliment :)

[@LouisEmery]

I'll be re-watching it many times. Hopefully this video will have a life of its own in later years.

[@cirecsc]

just brilliant!!

[@afip4n6doc]

Anything by Igudesman and Joo is funny! John Malkovich is unfailingly hilarious! Looking forward to seeing them in Seattle this October!

[@bingolio]

Awesome!

[@Saveurbees]

I believe this is a very well acted video and performance. Kuddos!

[@gmaggela]

Ι saw it in Athens. He is brilliant and his voice is magical!!

[@FodorPupil]

FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@glishev]

Johnannes IX Malkoviches is clearly the next Byzantine Emperor. And Istanbul critics just tried to prevent him from becoming that.

[@dogsinolga]

love!

[@friggsnowden5210]

Bravo!

[@Getwildeguys]

I think the mere fact of acting this was a smart move. We don't know Mr. Malkovich, but this was indeed entertaining :) I am so sorry of founding out of these two comedy and music geniuses. I hope to see you guys in Italy someday...

[@psyctk]

@carpentun I think Malkovich was not angry in this video, it was the 'reviewer' who was really angry. I think this show shared the same logic with The Infernal Comedy, which is that Malkovich just acted as a role on the stage, and when he acted, he was the role, not only himself. In The Infernal Comedy, he was the killer, and in this show, he was the reviewer. We saw he seemed angry, that was because he was casting the reviewer who should be angry. Please forgive my poor English.:)

[@n17ikh]

Brilliant! It's good to know Malkovich can laugh at himself.

[@cgnehru2733]

Pure genius

[@MrMainbadminton]

Please tell me what is the music piece from 0:45 and music piece from 2:10?

[@eveeludbrook]

haha this is actual genius! I love the musical cliches and all! :D Good work!

[@MertBey87]

whats the name of piece they are playing at 44th second can someone please help ? :)

[@nadyadk]

MARY REILLY

[@fantoche14]

@glitterXX2 He's the french guy...

[@ReAlVivi]

Legal ^^

[@amyshaw3875]

Arent you an octopus in Madagascar, remeber Sesame Street.... Octopi have 8 legs... This cute guy only is human.... Yikes❤ XO

[@lachhowarth]

@glitterXX2 It's the same guy

[@Cowgirl_Bebop]

😂❤

[@jackieringler296]

Lol funny 😂

[@Micbo2k10]

Lol, I didn't really listen to the vid, I just spent my time poking the mouse up people's noses...

[@carpentun]

I read the Turkish newspaper reviews of Mr. Malkovich's performances, and they were really quite adoring. This one was an exception. It's truly hilarious, especially translated this way. I like the part about deportation with Turkish delight! But I don't see Mr. Malkovich's sense of humor in his performance. He seems truly angry, and the video in general is loaded with a nasty and humorless sub-text. I found its message disturbing.

[@mym2259]

Perfect imitation of Trump

[@infectedN8]

what kind of crap is this ?