Duet for One is based on the life of conductor Daniel Barenboim and his wife, cellist Jacqueline du Pré, and Cannon originally bought this back when they made The Wicked Lady, as it was a movie that Faye Dunaway and her husband Terry O’Neill had wanted to make.
A stage play by Tom Kempinski, who also wrote the screenplay, this movie was directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, who also made Maria’s Lovers and Runaway Train for Cannon, so he had good luck at making highly regarded films for the lowy regarded studio.
Stephanie Anderson (Julie Andrews) is a world-famous violinist who has lost the ability to play and must redefine her reationships with her husband David (Alan Bates), her accompanist Leonid…