first of all and katherine hepburn be badly miscast a clara . she just can not be convince a the devoted and selfless and rather smarmy wife that the writer have create . but the real weakness of the film be it shallowness in the face of a potentially great piece of drama . schumann bipolar ( manic depressive ) disorder amount to oh and oh and i have a headache and the occasional angry word . suicide . the word be use and but there no sign of it in domestic scene and when we see him in the mental hospital he calm and subdue and smile and optimistic . a superficial treatment . and brahms be so upright and bourgeois no sign of his gruff humour and his love of tweak the nose of the establishment and no sign of his tortured attitude toward sex and woman result from spend his youth play piano in brothel . and be clara long concert career entirely about promote robert music and or be she and in fact and a remarkable pianist who want a career for herself and a female pianist carve out a place for herself in a male world . any sort of treatment of the life of great artist be good than none and but this be a standard hollywood and middle of the road approach and particularly disappointing because the real story be so much more dramatic and so much more interesting and so much more human .