With "Clara," Helma Sanders-Brahms has fashioned another film version of the turbulent menage-a-trois involving Clara and Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms. In this relatively controlled musical biography, there is a sense of intention to delineate something of the efforts Clara faced: as a musically-talented woman, an outstanding pianist and composer, struggling to express herself boldly in the society of men at that time, as mother of several children and increasingly beleaguered caretaker of her husband, with Robert descending further into mental illness, and as galvanizing muse and romantic other to the youthful and impetuous Brahms.