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Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould is a 1993 Canadian biographical anthology film about the pianist Glenn Gould, played by Colm Feore. It was directed by François Girard, with a screenplay by Girard and Don McKellar. The film is presented as a series of 31 short films rather than as one narrative. Segments include documentaries ...
Nov 26, 1993 · Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould: Directed by François Girard. With Colm Feore, Derek Keurvorst, Katya Ladan, Devon Anderson. A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.
Francois Girard's "Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould" brilliantly breaks with tradition and gives us a movie that actually inspires us to think about what it was like to be this man. Glenn Gould (1932-1982), born in Toronto, could play and read music before he was four years old. Taught only by his mother until he was 10, he was soon ...
Aug 24, 2020 · Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. By Anthony Lane. April 1, 2022. Glenn Gould, as scorned and as revered as any figure in modern music, died in 1982. François Girard’s movie, from 1994 ...
Katya Ladan. Gould's Mother. David Hughes. Stagehand. Gerry Quigley. Music Critic. In this episodic fusion of documentary and biographical drama, director François Girard explores the life of ...
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In THIRTY TWO SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD, director François Girard goes directly to the center of Gould’s ideas, his passions and his music. Using thirty-two elegantly constructed vignelles, which span Gould’s life from age four until his untimely death at age fifty, the film achieves the rare balance between play and conceptual rigor. ...
Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. Released: Thirty-two Short Films About Glenn Gould, stars Colm Feore in the masterful portrayal of Glenn Gould ‘thirty-two times over. Directed by Francois Girard. Back. @GlennGould.
Glenn Gould: Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. Director Francois Girard explores the life of legendary pianist Glenn Gould in 32 vignettes - each a variation on a theme of the Gould phenomenon, resulting in a biographical mosaic of a film deftly capturing the artist's uniquely personal journey. 55 IMDb 7.3 1 h 33 min 1993.
Available on iTunes. Director Francois Girard explores the life of legendary pianist Glenn Gould in 32 vignettes – each a variation on a theme of the Gould phenomenon, resulting in a biographical mosaic of a film deftly capturing the artist’s uniquely personal journey. Documentary 1993 1 hr 33 min. Unrated.
As the title suggests, this dramatised documentary about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould is broken up into thirty-two short films (mirroring the thirty-two part structure of Bach's 'Goldberg Variations', the recording that Gould made famous), each giving us an insight into some aspect of Gould's life and career.
