Philip Glass: Looking Glass

January. 01,2005

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

New York City Composer Minimalism

Trailer Synopsis Cast

This documentary captures the overflowing energy and activity of one today's greatest composers, Philip Glass, and allows us to follow him from New York to London and from Paris to Boston. He speaks about his beginnings, his moving to Paris for two years of intensive study with Nadia Boulanger, his meeting with Indian musician Ravi Shankar and director Robert Wilson, who had a deep influence on his career. The film also shows him at work on the last details of his opera The Sound of a Voice, directed by Robert Woodruff and conducted by Alan Johnson. Éric Darmon's camera, with its poetic shots and original framings, takes us for a musical journey into seven months of the life of the composer who, rising from the underground scene of the seventies, brought on a revolution in modern theater.

Philip Glass as Himself

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Reviews

Platicsco

2005/01/01

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

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Afouotos

2005/01/02

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

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Maleeha Vincent

2005/01/03

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

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Freeman

2005/01/04

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

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