Filmmaker Statement

VIRTUOSO is a film that is unashamed in its ambition to portray a violent and uncompromising women on screen.The film deliberately play with stereotypes and artifice. I love the theatre and melodrama of films like Dario Argento’s SUSPIRIA and Peter Greenaway’s THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER. These films are intrepid and uncompromising. Theatre is key to my work, and VIRTUOSO doesn't shy away from the theatre of the classical music world: instead, it embraces it.