Sunday, January 16, 2011

The Genius Within

documentary

The life and times of Glenn Gould, pianist and troubled soul. Early in his career he consciously cultivated eccentricities and as time went on they became him. He hated concerts and abandoned them at 31...died at 50.

Those in the know thought his musicianship was extraordinary. This film was almost worshipful but I found it to be too thorough...by the end I really didn't like this guy and preferred the indirect approach to his life used by Don McKellar in his 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould.

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