Du Pr&#233 sister defends film

Du Pré sister defends film Hilary du Pr&#233 has hit back in the war of words over the film Hilary And Jackie, which was released yesterday and tells the story of her late sister, the celebrated cellist Jacqueline du Pr&#233. The film has been attacked by some in the musical establishment, who say it gives a distorted view of her tragic life. In today's Guardian, Hilary du Pr&#233 writes: "What appears to have caused offence is not too little truth but too much honesty." The film is based on the book A Genius In The Family, which Hilary co-wrote with her brother Piers. The cellist Julian Lloyd Webber Julian Lloyd Webber (born April 14 1951) is a British cellist. He is a son of the composer William Lloyd Webber (some of whose pieces for cello he has recorded) and the younger brother of Andrew Lloyd Webber. yesterday condemned both the book and the film in a letter to the Times, co-signed by heavyweights in classical music - Lord Menuhin, Itzhak Perlman Itzhak Perlman (born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli-American violinist, conductor, and pedagogue. He is one of the most distinguished violinists of the late 20th century. Biography , William Pleeth William Pleeth (1916 – 1999) was a British cellist and an eminent teacher of the cello. He is probably best known as the teacher of Jacqueline du Pr��.Born in London to an Polish emigre family, Pleeth showed his talent as a cellist by age 7. , Mstislav Rostropovich Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich KBE (Russian: Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович and Pinchas Zukerman. "This is not the Jacqueline du Pr&#233 that we, as her friends and colleagues, knew," they wrote. "The film concentrates heavily on an affair which she had with her sister's husband and portrays Jacqueline as selfish, spoilt and manipulative." In today's article Hilary says: "I had to tell the complete story, however unpalatable... to others." Jacqueline du Pr&#233 died in 1987. She had given up performing in 1973 after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. A Genius In The Family, published in 1997, drew criticism for its revelations - above all that Hilary's husband, Christopher "Kiffer" Finzi, had slept with Jacqueline with her sister's acquiescence Conduct recognizing the existence of a transaction and intended to permit the transaction to be carried into effect; a tacit agreement; consent inferred from silence. . Jacqueline's former husband, Daniel Barenboim Daniel Barenboim (born November 15, 1942) is a pianist and conductor. He lives in Berlin and holds citizenship in Argentina, Israel, and Spain. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina; his parents were Russian Ashkenazi Jews. , has refused involvement with either book or film. It also caused a rift between Hilary and her daughter, Clare Finzi, who said yesterday: "Her memory has become the film."