The Devil's Horn

Name: The Devil's Horn
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2016-04-23
Duration: 1 h 26 min
Rating: 6
Cast: David Fox, Mathieu Lalot, Reverend Horton Heat

2016
1h 26m

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6.0/10

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An exploration of the seemingly mythological hold the saxophone has had on those who've played it, including Adolphe Sax, the man who invented it in 1840.An exploration of the seemingly mythological hold the saxophone has had on those who've played it, including Adolphe Sax, the man who invented it in 1840.An exploration of the seemingly mythological hold the saxophone has had on those who've played it, including Adolphe Sax, the man who invented it in 1840.

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6.0/10

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8/10

Curse and magic 🎶🎷

What a charming documentary! With an inspired opening, a brilliant text and rich footage, it portrays saxophone as a cursed marvelous intrument, since its creation in Belgium. Those who play it produce magic sounds but also suffer more infortunes than other players, as numerous bizarre life stories (addiction, accidents, crimes...) of fantastic jazz (and other styles!) musicians that appear in the film would prove. 🎷👹 It may not be true, but it is an amusing documentary script. It also explores a lot how flexible is this intrument, allowing infinite possibilities for the player to innovate and translate his emotions and feelings into music. It is also addressed how saxophone had fierce enemes in politics, religion and business. As the single drawback, two or three testimonies (the minister and the Bulgarian, at least) are not as good as the rest of the movie.