Tony Palmer's Film About Hector Berlioz: I, Berlioz

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Tony Palmer takes the letters and memoirs of French composer/conductor Hector Berlioz and translates them into this memorable documentary portrait of the 19th-century musical master. Once intending to study medicine, the young Berlioz abandoned that vocation (after an acutely disturbing dissection class) and the world of music grew all the richer for this fateful choice. 88 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.