Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

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s r @ScottR 04/11/2022 1001 movies to see before you die. This movie was unique. Telling the story of an amazing musician and his life in a very creatively composed way. Excellent acting, direction and soundtrack make up a good Canadian biopic. At times it was a bit slow, but it made me focus on the music all the more and appreciate it for what it was worth. The animated segment was bizarrely hypnotic, with simple circles moving during a piece, I enjoyed its Pink Floydish feel to it. Some of the details were lacking, but that made it the viewer make the jump to fill in the blanks, and this wasn't entirely unsuccessful. Perhaps a better introduction to the subject at the beginning could have made it more effective. Regardless, it was entertaining and unforgettable. It was on youtube. See more 07/21/2021 To paraphrase the golden boy himself: The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in this biopic than in those about any other composer, is an ability to conceive a priori of conceptual identities which when transposed, inverted, made retrograde, or transformed rhythmically will yet exhibit, in conjunction with the original subject matter, some entirely new but completely harmonious profile. See more david f @dfulmer 10/05/2020 This is as good a biographical film as is possible, I think. Using Gould's recordings as the soundtrack, and his eccentricities as the subject matter, these 32 brief and desultory films sum up the Canadian character of the great pianist. See more 01/24/2014 An interesting approach to the documentary format. It's also an interesting approach to the feature-length film. See more 06/25/2013 Easily one of the top two or three greatest Canadian films. A portrait of an astonishing artist - quite possibly the finest pianist of the 20th century. Girard's approach was brilliant - to use 32 separate segments to create a mosaic that encapsulates this complex artist. It's also referencing Gould's most famous recording, the 32 Goldberg Variations by Bach. The film may be too esoteric for some audience's tastes but I'm sure Gould would have it no other way. This was a clear influence on Todd Haynes' equally unconventional biopic of Bob Dylan's I'm Not There. See more 03/05/2013 u have to really like classical music and the piano to like this. I had never herd of glenn gould before this. Its an interesting way to do a biopic, half doc have drama. See more Read all reviews

Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

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