A world-renowned opera singer becomes trapped in a hostage situation when she's invited to perform for a wealthy industrialist in South America.
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Julianne Moore | ... | Roxanne Coss | |
| Ken Watanabe | ... | Hosokawa | |
| Sebastian Koch | ... | Messner | |
| Ryô Kase | ... | Gen | |
| Tenoch Huerta | ... | Comandante Benjamin | |
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Noé Hernández | ... | Comandante Alfredo |
| Johnny Ortiz | ... | Gilbert | |
| María Mercedes Coroy | ... | Carmen | |
| Ethan Vincent | ... | Cesar (as Ethan Simpson) | |
| Gabo Augustine | ... | Ishmael | |
| Carmen Zilles | ... | Beatriz | |
| Eddie Martinez | ... | Ruben Ochoa (as J. Eddie Martinez) | |
| Christopher Lambert | ... | Simon Thibault | |
| Olek Krupa | ... | Fyodorov | |
| Bobby Daniel Rodriguez | ... | Father Arguedas (as Bobby Rodriguez) | |
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A world-renowned opera singer becomes trapped in a hostage situation when she's invited to perform for a wealthy industrialist in South America.
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Country:
USARelease Date:
14 September 2018 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Bel Canto See more »Filming Locations:
Mexico City, MexicoEdit
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Opening Weekend USA:
$12,421, 16 September 2018Gross USA:
$125,569Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$350,264Company Credits
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Roxanne Coss: Are you sure? Not everyone likes opera!
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Written by Giacomo Puccini
Performed by Renée Fleming & Gerald Martin Moore
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As Julianne Moore is not a trained singer, she was coached to lip synch for her singing scenes. Reneé Fleming provided the singing voice for Moore. See more »Quotes
Comandante Alfredo: Don't worry, they won't shoot.Roxanne Coss: Are you sure? Not everyone likes opera!
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Featured in Late Night with Seth Meyers: Julianne Moore/Sturgill Simpson/Khaled Hosseini/Sean Kinney (2018) See more »Soundtracks
Vissi d'arteWritten by Giacomo Puccini
Performed by Renée Fleming & Gerald Martin Moore
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Bel Canto is a heartbreaking story of love, justice and human connections. A group of freedom fighters invade a private event in Lima and keep wealthy people in hostage, and demand freedom of unfairly jailed comrades and retirement of corrupted president. Even though the film itself is full of warmth and is made with good intentions, I couldn't help but feel a sense of uncertainty of where the writers and the director were heading to. The film is based on true events, however it fails to give us in-depth character development, or more constructive and detailed description of the event. Julianne Moore and the rest of the cast did their best to help the movie out, but it just feels incomplete.